Bulaq Abu Ela neighborhood

Bulaq Abu Ela neighborhood

Bulaq Abu Ela:

Bulaq Abu Ela District is a neighborhood Qahry, due Bulaq Abu Ela District continued to the year 1281 AD, and that when he formed an island in the Nile place Bulaq, then followed by other islands and became the land of these islands can accommodate and adhere to each other until it became one big island, approached from the north of the island Others later known as elephant island, and in 1313 AD, King al-Nasir Muhammad was allowed to build on that land, then people raced in construction in this neighborhood and set up on the Nile buildings, palaces and gardens, and be out of this district of Bulaq.

The Bulaq District until 1858, a small town on the Nile did not exceed its buildings region bordering day Adventist Street northward and southward Street Stables roads, east Bchoraa Sidi Alimi Alwa pilgrims Tel Wabour Noor Palace.

The land, which lies between the old Bulaq and Ramses Street Zragah land and orchards, and the buildings in which he spoke only in the reign of Khedive Ismail, and since then, the capacity buildings and buildings in this neighborhood became part Bulaq Adaraya sections of Cairo.

The most important mosques in the district of Bulaq:

Bulaq Abu Ela Mosque.

Sinan Pasha Mosque. He called the Bulaq neighborhood of that name because the word was out and the word Blaq Blaq is an ancient Egyptian word meaning the anchor and supplied, and then misrepresented later to be Bulaq.