On our recent visit to Cairo I learned some new things that I hadn't realized before namely- Cairo is the largest city in Africa, and its Nickname is "The City of A Thousand Minarets." A Minerat is the tower or towers attached to a mosque where the shiek or Imman can climb up to yell out the call to prayer that brings Mulslim men to the Mosque to pray 5 times a day. Now most of them house loadspeakers to save the Imman the trouble of climibing the Minaret. You can Learn all about Minarets from Wikipedia HERE. I don't think we saw a thousand Minarets in Cairo but we did see a lot, here are some pictures of the ones we did see..
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