The Funerary Complex of Sultan Barquq stands on Al-Mu'izz Street in historic Islamic Cairo. Sultan al-Zahir Barquq, the first sultan of the Burji Mamluk line, built it. According to the facade inscription, construction began in December 1384 and was completed in April 1386. The master builder was Ahmad al-Tuluni, and Emir Jarkas al-Khalili supervised the works.
It combined a mosque, a madrasa for 125 students, a khanqah for sixty Sufis and a mausoleum. The design resembles the earlier and larger Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan. A courtyard is flanked by four iwans, and the prayer hall sits under the largest single wooden roof in Mamluk architecture.
Barquq was not buried here, and the mausoleum holds his daughter Fatima. The dome was rebuilt in brick in 1893. It is active as a mosque.
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