Islamic Cairo
Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Al-Azhar Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city.
Hussein Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
The al-Hussein Mosque or al-Husayn Mosque, also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874.
Bāb Zuwaylah
Photo: JMCC1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Zuweila or Bab Zuwayla is one of three remaining gates in the city wall of the Old City of Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
Localities in the Area
Downtown Cairo
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo.
Bab al-Louq
Suburb
Bab al-Louq is a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there.
Islamic Cairo
- Type: Suburb
- Description: urban district
- Categories: quarter, urban area and locality
- Location: Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04875° or 30° 2' 56" northLongitude
31.26378° or 31° 15' 50" eastOpen Location Code
8G2H27X7+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 330154299OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q1100964Islamic Cairo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: القاهرة الإسلامية
- Arabic: القاهرة التاريخية
- Arabic: قاهرة المعز
- Armenian: Իսլամական Կահիրե
- Asturian: El Cairo Históricu
- Asturian: El Cairu Históricu
- Azerbaijani: İslam Qahirəsi
- Basque: Islamdar Kairo
- Basque: Islamiar Kairo
- Bengali: ইসলামিক কায়রো
- Bosnian: Islamski Kairo
- Burmese: အစ္စလာမ်မစ် ကိုင်ရို
- Catalan: El Caire Històric
- Chinese: 加塔伊
- Chinese: 开罗伊斯兰老城
- Chinese: 格塔伊耳城
- Chinese: 開羅伊斯蘭老城
- Croatian: Islamski Kairo
- Dutch: Historisch Caïro
- English: Historic Cairo
- Esperanto: Islama Kairo
- Esperanto: Islama Kvartalo de Kairo
- French: Caire islamique
- German: Historisches Kairo
- German: Islamische Altstadt
- German: Islamisches Kairo
- Greek: Ισλαμικό Κάιρο
- Hausa: Musulunci Alkahira
- Hebrew: קהיר האסלאמית
- Hindi: इस्लामी काहिरा
- Hungarian: Az iszlám Kairó
- Italian: Il Cairo storica
- Japanese: カイロ旧市街
- Japanese: カイロ歴史地区
- Macedonian: Исламски Каиро
- Maithili: इस्लामिक कायरो
- Malayalam: ഇസ്ലാമിക് കെയ്റോ
- Maltese: Belt Storika tal-Kajr
- Maltese: Il-Belt Iżlamika tal-Kajr
- Nepali: इस्लामिक कायरो
- Nepali: इस्लामी कायरो
- Norwegian: Det islamske Kairo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Det islamske Kairo
- Persian: قاهره اسلامی
- Portuguese: Cairo Islâmico
- Portuguese: Cairo histórico
- Portuguese: Cairo islâmico
- Romanian: Cairo islamic
- Romanian: Cairoul musulman
- Romanian: Islamic Cairo
- Russian: Исламский Каир
- Scots: Islamic Cairo
- Serbo-Croatian: Islamski Kairo
- Slovenian: Muslimanski Kairo
- Spanish: Cairo historico
- Spanish: Cairo histórico
- Spanish: El Cairo Histórico
- Spanish: El Cairo historico
- Swahili: Islamic Cairo
- Swedish: Historiska Kairo
- Turkish: Tarihi Kahire
- Urdu: قاہرہ المعز
- Vietnamese: Cairo Hồi giáo
- Western Panjabi: قاہرہ المعز
- Il Cairo storico
- Kairo ya Kale
Localities in the Area
- Qasr El ShokNeighbourhood
- El Mashhad El HusseinyNeighbourhood
- Khan El KhaliliNeighbourhood
- El AzharNeighbourhood
- El-GamaliyyaSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Islamic Cairo. Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.