Citadel of Saladin

Citadel of Saladin Salah al-Din Castle or the Castle of the Mountain is a castle located on Mount Mokattam Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi ordered the construction of a fortress on the Mokattam mountain in a place known as the Dome of Air. But he did not complete it in his life. Rather, it was completed by Sultan Al-Kamil bin Al-Adil. The first to inhabit it was Al-Malik Al-Kamil, and he made it a home for the king. And it continued until the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha On the western side of the citadel, there is the inscribed door and above it an inscription referring to the construction of this fortress, and the text reads: “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The world and religion, Abu Al-Muzaffar Yusuf bin Ayyub Muhyi of the state of the Commander of the Faithful in the eyes of his brother and his crown prince, the just king, Sayf al-Din Abi Bakr Muhammad Khalil, the Commander of the Faithful, at the hands of the ruler of his kingdom, and the appointee of his st...