Most Egyptian homes during the month of Ramadan are not devoid of one or more lanterns of various shapes and sizes, as families used to buy it for children or to add it as a piece of decor in the house, with every month of Ramadan, as it adds joy and pleasure to the people of the house as it is considered one of the rituals of receiving the holy month that families used to on her.

The Egyptians have been known for many years to make lanterns out of tin and pieces of stained glass in different colors.

The Egyptian craftsman was not satisfied with designing the lantern only, but rather called it some names that were associated in the minds of many of his lovers, such as the lantern of King Farouk, which was designed during his reign, and another called it the Crown of the King, the Bride of the Sea, and Abu Eyal, as well as a pistol, and the missile, and he called it this. The name is because it resembles the missile, Farouk Al-Kabir, and Abu Delayah .

other lanterns

Other names were given to the shapes of lanterns such as the five, star, Abu Lawz, the tower, as well as the small lotus, the barrel, the watermelon slice, the melon, and the afarkush after the character of the goblin who appeared with a lantern in the movie “The Magic Lantern”, and it seems that this name was given to a lantern resembling The lantern that appeared in the famous movie.

lanterns

It is said that the word lantern is Greek and refers to one of the means of lighting, and about the reason for the lantern being associated with the holy month, there are several narrations, including that one of the Fatimid caliphs wanted to light the streets of Cairo throughout the nights of the holy month, so he ordered the sheikhs of mosques to hang lanterns that are lit with candles and another narration that the Fatimid caliph He used to go out to the streets on the night of the vision to explore the crescent of the month of Ramadan, and the children used to go out with him to light the way for him with the lantern, and in another narration, and many other narrations about the reason for the appearance of the lantern.