Wekalet El Ghouri & Tanura Show Tour in Cairo

You and your family can enjoy a fun and culturally different experience at Al Ghori Agency and attend a dazzling tanoura show. You will be mesmerized by the exquisite Sufi dance in an 1100-year-old theater. The exquisite colors are unlike any other dance in the world, and your children will marvel at how the dancers do not get dizzy. 

It is very important to know a brief part of the history of Wekalet Al-Ghuri is part of an architectural complex built at the end of the Mamluk period. Its importance is because it was built at the time of a Circassian Mamluk, Al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Konsowa Al-Ghuri, who ruled Egypt from 1501 to 1516 and rose through his intelligence to rule Egypt, the last of the Mamluk sultans, and with the end of his era came the Ottoman invasion.
The band performs to the accompaniment of popular musical instruments (Rababa, Salamiya, Mezamar, Sajat, Tabla) and a popular minstrel who relies on spontaneity and religious chants to accompany the dance.

The Sufi Tanoura dance is characterized by a special character that is unique in its kind, as it relies on circular movements and stems from the Islamic Sufi sense, which has a philosophical and semantic basis that goes back to the Mawlawi concept that movement in the universe starts from a point and ends at the same point and that the movement is therefore circular, and when the Tanoura dancer (al-Lefif) revolves around himself, he is like the sun, and the dancers (al-Hanatieh) revolve around him as if they were the planets. Through the successive cycles, they symbolize the succession of the four seasons, as they rotate counter-clockwise, just like circumambulating the Kaaba, and when the Tanoura dancer (al-Lefif) raises his right hand from above and his left hand down, he makes the connection between the earth and the sky, and as he rotates around himself, it is as if he is getting rid of everything to ascend to the sky.

Also, through our well-organized adventure by Cairo Top Tours representatives, you will enjoy every moment of your excursion, from the pick-up from your hotel in Cairo or Giza in an air-conditioned car to one of the unforgettable excursions that will always remind you of Cairo and its impressive traditions.