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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Leviticus, xiii:1.)--We give here a view of the
Mosque of Amr, because it helps us to see a place of worship as it looks to-day, in the land of Egypt, where Moses grew up.
This is in the neighborhood of old Cairo, and as Moses grew up at Memphis and was educated at Heliopolis, in going from Memphis
to Heliopolis he would pass through this same neighborhood where this mosque stands to-day. This is the most interesting mosque
in Cairo. There is almost a wilderness of columns of different styles of architecture, perhaps taken from older buildings
and brought together here to adorn this one. There are a couple of columns on the west side of the mosque once used as a test
of character. They were said to be so close together that only an honest man could squeeze through them. The Khedive has now
walled up this space." See 5141BAI/LVi59CAJS (Voyager # 357624)
Rows of columns and arches with wooden connectors at the capitals
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