3D print the Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad
A free, printable 3D model of the Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad on al-Mu'izz Street in Islamic Cairo, generated from real map data in your browser among the surrounding city.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 17 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
17 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Mosque at print scale
A larger print keeps the building's proportions and roof line legible; 0.12–0.16 mm layers help the vertical edges stay crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad
Sultan al-Mu'ayyad's mosque stands beside Bab Zuwayla on al-Mu'izz Street, in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. It was erected from 1415 to 1421 under Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, a Mamluk ruler who gave the mosque his name. It has a Friday mosque and two mausoleums that contained the tomb of the sultan and his family, and it replaced a prison that had stood beside Bab Zuwayla. The original complex also had a madrasa teaching the four madhhabs, and the two minarets rest on Bab Zuwayla's older Fatimid towers, an arrangement found in no other mosque.
According to the medieval historian al-Maqrizi, the future sultan was imprisoned here and vowed to turn that prison into a saintly place where scholars would be taught if he gained power. In 1412 he helped overthrow Sultan Faraj and within six months took power, then commissioned the mosque. Construction began in May 1415; al-Maqrizi records a workforce of thirty builders and one hundred workers over seven years. It cost 40,000 dinars. Some of its marble and some columns were reused from older structures, and the bronze door and chandelier are attributed to the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan.
In November 1419 the new building was celebrated with an inaugural event. It was Cairo's last great hypostyle mosque; the prayer hall and the eastern facade are the only original sections, while much of the rest has been restored in the past two centuries. Its main portal has a tall rectangular frame and a muqarnas canopy, and shops beneath the walls help pay for upkeep. A restoration ordered by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture in 2001 rebuilt much of the mosque.
About this model
The Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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