Glass lamps (fanabir) in the Masjid Al Nabawi in the first decade of the 20th century, when they were fuelled by paraffin. This is one of many photographs by an Eayptian civil servant and photographer, Muhammad Ali Effendi Sa'oudi. On two occasions he accompanied lbrahim Rifaat Pasha, the Amir Al Hajj, on the official Egyptian pilgrimage caravan.
Photograph : Muhammad Ali Effendi Sa'udi, 1904-1908
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