1-632-181 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The prayer-niche and pulpit in the tomb mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt', 1905. 'That niche there is called by the Moslems the mihrab, and it marks the proper direction for prayer, which they term kibleh, or facing for it is very important that a Moslem should always pray toward Mecca. On the further side of the prayer niche you observe the mimbar, or pulpit, from which the Friday sermon, or Khutbeh, is delivered every week.' Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted.