The Shrine of Ikhwat Yussuf is a Fatimid monument with later Ottoman additions located in Cairo’s Southern Cemetery at the foot of the Mokattam hillside. The mausoleum is one of very few surviving Fatimid period (AD 969-1171) monuments in Egypt and contains an elaborately carved stucco mihrab (prayer niche), a brick dome, stone arches, vaults, and secondary domes.
In 2022, ARCE (American Research Center in Egypt) will begin a conservation and restoration project at the monument that will include fine plaster conservation of the mihrab and its digital restoration, in collaboration with Factum Foundation. The mihrab was recorded in high resolution in March 2022 by Factum Foundation, who also provided a hands-on photogrammetry training at the site for inspectors from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, as part of a field training program ARCE coordinated to complement its work at the mausoleum.
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