| Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qaytbay | |
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| Native name Arabic: سبيل وكتـّاب السلطان قايتباي | |
View of the sabil-kuttab from Saliba street.
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| Type | Sabil; kuttab |
| Coordinates | 30°01′51″N 31°15′17″E / 30.03083°N 31.25472°E / 30.03083; 31.25472 |
| Founder | Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay |
| Built | 1479 CE (884 AH) |
| Restored | 1999 |
| Restored by | Supreme Council of Antiquities; Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional |
| Current use | tourist attraction (historic site); the Suzanne Mubarak Center for Islamic Civilization |
| Architectural style(s) | Mamluk, Islamic |
The Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qaytbay is a Mamluk-era charitable foundation and building in Cairo, Egypt. It was built in 1479 on the order of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay and is located on Saliba Street in the historic districts of Cairo.[1][2][3]
The building is composed of a sabil (a water distribution kiosk) on the ground floor and a kuttab (primary school teaching the Qur'an) on the upper floors. Below the structure, underground, is a cistern from which water was drawn for the sabil. The structure was the first free-standing sabil-kuttab in Cairo; a type of building that would later become quite common during the Ottoman period.[4]
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