Post Tagged with: "Beit Al Kreitli"
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Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
- House of the Cretan Woman – Gayer Anderson - 16/12/2018
The Ibn Tulun Mosque is said to have been built on Gebel Yashkur (the Hill of Thanksgiving) by Ibn Tulun because it was here that Noah’s Ark came to rest as the flood waters receded and it was here that […]
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King of the Djinns (Geniis)
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
- House of the Cretan Woman – Gayer Anderson - 16/12/2018
According to legend, Beit al-Kreitlia is home to Sultan al-Watawit (Watawit means bat) – King of the Djins and his seven daughters who sleep peacefully in golden beds at the bottom of a magic well in the corner of the […]
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The Benevolent Serpent of Beit Al-Kreitlia
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
- House of the Cretan Woman – Gayer Anderson - 16/12/2018
Before the Kretlis family owned the house it was owned by a man named Hagg Mohammed. In those days there lived in the house a benevolent serpent by the name of Anon – she protected the house by preventing other […]
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Face of True Love
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
- House of the Cretan Woman – Gayer Anderson - 16/12/2018
Many countries around the world have stories of water wells in which believers can see the face of their true love. Cairo also has such a well and it is at Beit Al-Kreitlia – the Gayer Anderson House. This famous […]
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