How did the pharaonic stones transformed into mosques?

How did the pharaonic stones transformed into mosques?

Historic Cairo is full of pharaonic stones mosques

There is no more distinctive example of this policy than the threshold of Khanqah Khan Baybars Jashnakir with the aesthetic, which is part of the Pharaonic Temple, and in the same area there is the threshold of the Prince Qusun Agency, which is part of the Pharaonic Temple, which the Nasser Muhammad Mosque in the castle has Roman and Pharaonic columns, so that the matter The same extends to the Al-Azhar mosque itself.

Akhenaten is an old victim.

That the effects of «Akhenaten» are facing destruction, after they considered it a “heretic”, before it was reused in the filling of the “Horemheb” edifice at Karnak, and Ramses II did not find a problem in taking many of these elements and statues and attributed them to himself, and the most famous model of victory painting, written On one side are texts by Amenhotep the Third, and on the other hand, writing was made during the reign of Mreneptah.

There are many elements that were taken from the Ramses II temple of Ramses II for use in the Medinat Habu Temple of Ramses III, and this custom continued in the Greco-Roman era, where they took many elements from obelisks and columns to decorate Rome and Alexandria

Dismantling whole pyramids

When Christianity entered Egypt, many of the ancient Egyptian temples and tombs turned into churches, as well as took many architectural elements from the Pharaonic and Roman temples, and were used in churches like columns and others, and this habit continued in the Islamic era as well.

And this continued until Muhammad Ali dismantled many small pyramids for use in buildings until he decided to dismantle the Great Pyramid itself to build charitable arches but retract the high cost of transportation, and there is the oasis warden who is a complete temple to build his house and there are house facades erected from pharaonic stones, and the striking model factories Sugar in Kom Ombo and Esna are stones taken from Pharaonic temples.