6/50.- Luxor, Luxor temple, Abu al-Haggag mosque

In the Ramses II courtyard there is this mosque. As in many other sacred places I have visited, when follwoers of a new religion build a temple, they tend to choose the same place where former religions erected their sacred buildings. I don't know if religions choose these places because they are sacred, or if they are sacred because they are the places religions choose. Maybe there is some hidden telluric force which not everyone can perceive.

This mosque was built in the Fatimid period (909–1171), and it was dedicated to the local saint who introduced islam to Luxor, Sheikh Yusuf al-Haggag.

We will keep visiting the temple ...

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