Qa’itbay drinking trough for animals

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The Trough is located on Al-Azhari lane behind the most famous fatimid mosque of Al – Azhar.

The trough was founded in 882 A.H./1477 A.D.by <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Arabic Transparent"; panose-1:2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:178; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:8193 0 0 0 64 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:none; punctuation-wrap:simple; text-autospace:none; direction:rtl; unicode-bidi:embed; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Arabic Transparent"; mso-fareast-language:AR-SA;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> As Sultan Al-Malik Al-Ashraf Abul-Nasr Qa’itbay.

The building consists of a rectangular compartment about 8.75 X 5.35 m. and a height of 7.45 m., a small attached square space of 0.8 X 0.8 m and 1.2 m higher than the major space and beneath this space lies the cistern.