A
nearly 300-year-old mosque whose minaret collapsed in Qena governorate on
Sunday morning is not on the country’s antiquities list, the Supreme Council of
Antiquities has said. Written By/ Nevine El-Aref.
Several
websites and social media platforms published articles about the collapsed
minaret of El-Tayeb Mosque in the city of Qus, accusing the Ministry of
Antiquities of negligence.
Mostafa
Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, denied blame
and asserted in a press release that the minaret and the mosque were not
registered on Egypt’s antiquities list for Islamic monuments because they did
not meet the required archaeological criteria and standards.
Gamal
Mostafa, head of the Islamic, Coptic and Jewish Antiquities Department at the
antiquities ministry told Ahram Online that the minaret was the oldest
architectural element of the mosque, and in 2005 the Ministry of Endowments
rebuilt the mosque due to its bad construction and architectural condition. Al-Ahram
Arabic reported the mosque was originally built in 1147 AH (1734-5 AD).
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