Egypt’s Ministers of Tourism& Antiquities, Endowments, Governor of Cairo, US Ambassador inaugurate the dome of Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i

Egypt’s Ministers of Tourism& Antiquities, Endowments, Governor of Cairo, US Ambassador inaugurate the dome of Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i

File: Dome of Al-Imam al-Shafi'i







 

 

 

CAIRO - 19 April 2021: The Ministers of Tourism and Antiquities, Endowments, the Governor of Cairo, the Chairman of the Religious Committee of the Parliament, and the Ambassador of the United States of America in Cairo inaugurated the mausoleum dome of Al-Imam al-Shafi'i, after completing the conservation and maintenance project on April 18.

 

 

‏The conservation project of the dome started in 2016 and was implemented in cooperation Athar Lina Initiative- Megawra  and funded by the U.S Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation.

 

 

Al-Imam El-Shafi'i is Muhammad Bin Idris Bin El-Abbas bin Othman bin Shafi, known as Imam El-Shafi'i.

 

 

El-Shafi'i was born in Gaza in the year 150 AH / 767 CE, and grew up in Makkah Al-Mukarramah and studied under the Imam Malik, owner of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence, then boarded with his own doctrine (El-Shafi'i).

 

 

El-Shafi'i came to Egypt in 198 AH