The so-called ‘Rue du Caire’ was a street at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris planned by Alphonse Delort de Gléon. The aim was to recreate the impression of an old street in Cairo, with reproductions solely of historical buildings, such as houses with mashrabiyya oriels and a mosque with a 30m-high minaret. However, the street had to be wider than an old street in Cairo would commonly have been, and because of construction issues, the houses were kept quite low. The woodwork and mashrabiyyāt, one of which also featured stucco and glass windows in its upper part, were imported from Cairo (Delort de Gléon, 1889, pp. 10–11).

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