Funerary enclosure of Mahmud Fahmi Pasha al-Nuqrashi family

Description (The direction towards Mecca (Qibla) is described as eastern and other directions are named accordingly)

The main (western) façade facing the Sultan Ahmad Street is built of ashlar stone, topped with fleur-de-lys crenelations, and designed in neo-Mamluk style with close resemblance to mediaeval Mamluk architectural forms. The northern and eastern elevations are plain, covered with a simple classical-style corniche, and plastered. The north elevation is divided into bays with vertical stripes of ashlar stone masonry. Huge rectangular windows are plain, and the gate in the middle of the east façade has very simple architectural framing with no neo-Mamluk elements. The central part of the front façade is strictly symmetrical, with two windows on each side of the central entrance gate placed in shallow rectangular recesses topped with muqarnas friezes and with knotted mouldings that frame the lintels and flat arches of joggled voussoirs over segmental relieving arch above them – all in typically Mamluk manner. The entrance gate section is taller than the rest of the façade, forming a pishtaq (Petersen, p.234). The rectangular entrance door with knotted moulding framing similar to these over the windows is set in a wide recess covered with very elaborate muqarnas hood of five tiers of “stalactite” muqarnas niches. Two gals seats flank the doorway to the sides of its recess in a typically Mamluk manner (Amin & Ibrahim, p. 30). The decorated door-leaves feature neo-classical, not neo-Mamluk motifs. In the southern end of the façade is a
wider recess with a pair of narrow windows, while at the northern end is a sabil placed in a chamfered corner, with a central window fitted with a marble ledge and two side windows.
The two gateways are on the main axis opposite each other and lead to the central courtyard. There are two residential flats on either side of the main entrance on the western side, two rooms on either side of the secondary entrance, and two burial chambers extending at the southern and the northern sides, all overlooking an enclosed courtyard with a garden layout.
The burial chamber on the southern side contains two limestone cenotaphs and three decorative marble cenotaphs. The other chamber is on the northern side and contains five decorative marble cenotaphs, one simple marble cenotaph, and one wooden cenotaph.