MINARET OF THE MOSQUE EL RHAMREE. 
This mosque is situated in the main line of the street leading to the Bab en Nasr. 
There are great symmetry and beauty in its minaret,—characters almost common to 
those elegant structures, though this mosque is one not much distinguished among the 
four hundred that, it is said, Cairo contains. It is surmounted by a bronze crescent 
and the props, often decayed and unsafe, from which lamps are suspended during the 
feast of Rhamadan. A flight of steps, seen on the right, leads up to the porch of the 
principal entrance, above which lamps are placed. 
The narrow streets, thus overhung by the houses on either side, are darkened but 
cooled by such exclusion of the sun’s rays; yet those objects of beauty, the minarets 
of the mosques, frequently burst upon the eye of the observer as they rise above the 
buildings, and strikingly characterise the architecture of Cairo. 
