NEW VERSION 1.1: DISAPPEARING MOSQUE BUG NOW FIXED!! Please see changelog
Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo, Egypt: In the City of A Thousand Minarets, this mosque is one of the oldest. Constructed in 879AD and designed by a Christian Orthodox architect, the Mosque of Ibn Tulun is one of the oldest treaures of the Islamic World. It is distinctive for it's wide, open courtyard and spiral staircase minaret. After more than 1000 years, it now finds itself engulfed on all sides by the sprawling metropolis of modern Cairo. The mosque is located immediately west of Al'Rifa'i (a default MSFS POI) and can be seen clearly on any of the 05 runway approaches to Cairo International Airport (HECA).
This scenery for MSFS includes my hand-made model for Ibn Tulun Mosque (using Blender 2.9). I have made some simplifications to the architecture to aide construction. Also, the scenery does not yet include night lighting, but I am working on that.
INSTALLATION: Simply drag and drop the folder in teh zip file to your Community folder, delete to uninstall! :-)
This model is freeware and is supplied as is (I make no guarantees or warranty). Please do not redistribute without permission. This model uses some textures obtained under freeware license from https://www.textures.com
By SU-SMD, 2021
Steveal3aneef
Thank you for adding value to the sim community, I included your amazing work link to my Tour Video on youtube https://youtu.be/267Xw1B3HXg
shreefo
Thank u very much for your great work. According to your outstanding skills may i ask you to add some landmarks along the landing pathway of 5c and 5R ( such as Maspero, Cairo University, Maadi Towers as well as the new egyptian museum). Thanks
SUdashSMD author
Thanks! Would love to work through those landmarks and will keep them in mind. Unfortunately I'm still tackling the problem with this model (see description) so can't work on anything else till I get that sorted out ☹
3 years ago
Nassef
Great job, thanks