مسجد ومدرسة أُمِّ السلطان شعبان، بالدَّرب الأحمر بالقاهرة
Mosque and school of Umm al-Sultan Shaban, al-Darb al-Ahmar, Cairo
This mosque is attributed to the noble king Shaaban bin Hussein, his father, the glorified prince Husayn ibn al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, and his mother, Mrs. Khawand Baraka.
Al-Ashraf Shaaban was born in 754 AH in the Al-Jabal Castle, and he is the twenty-second Sultan of the Turkic kings in the Egyptian Dyar. He sat on the throne of Egypt after his cousin, King Al-Mansour Muhammad bin Al-Malik Al-Muzaffar, Haji bin Al-Nasser Muhammad, was deposed, and he was ten years old. In all respects; As a result of the young age of the sultans from the children of al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, as well as the disputes between the princes of tyranny of power. When the Mamluk state weakened at the time, the enemies underestimated it, lost its prestige, and the greedy greed for it, so the city of Alexandria was subjected to a crusade led by Peter Lusignan, the ruler of Cyprus.
After the stability of the affairs of Sultan Shaban, he began building the mosque and the school that was named after his mother Khawand Baraka, which was of goodness, beauty, reason and sound opinion, and which was established alongside the school of Sultan Shaaban Rabi'a known as the quarter of Umm al-Sultan near the Kant Mosque, in addition to Qaysariyya. Under the fourth quarter, and he reached out of his love for his mother that he sent with her a large retinue and a hundred of the Sultanate Mamelukes and a band when they went to the Hajj, and their journey also included a train of camels loaded with various supplies, until this year's pilgrimage was known as the year of the mother of the Sultan. In the mosque named after her when she is in her fifth decade of life. The Umm al-Sultan Shaban Mosque is located on al-Tabbaneh Street to the right of al-Salik from al-Darb al-Ahmar to the castle, between Bab al-Wazir and al-Mardani Mosque, it has two doors. One of them is on the street, the other is in Mazhar Pasha's neighborhood, and its plate is furnished with precious marble, and it contains beautiful patterns. The void was in the establishment of this school in the year 770 AH / 1368 CE, and it was prepared to be a school for Shafi’i and Hanafi. Separated from the façade, it is surmounted by writers, so the public entrance, a fountain, then annexes to the school, is the lighthouse.
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