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Pictured is the side of the Shrine of Muhammad Ali Pasha inside the Alabaster Mosque in the Cairo Citadel, Egypt. It is rich with gold decorations and floral and geometric designs. Inside is the tomb carved from Carrara marble where the body of Muhammad was transferred from Hosh al-Basha in 1857. Muhammad Ali Pasha was the Albanian Ottoman governor and the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, who is considered the founder of modern Egypt.