BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.

On friday, the day of gathering, yom de guma, there is a sprawling market in Cairo and the largest prayer

Alexander Lagaaij
Looking up at the entry to the old Hassan mosque https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque-Madrasa_of_Sultan_Hasan
The mosque has no roof as building stopped when Hassan was assassinated in 1361 and is thus open to the sky. (this is my interpretation of why there is an open courtyard)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_prayer

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