Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood

Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood

Full of Sayeda Zeinab district of Cairo deeply historic Astmdth from the right that have passed them and dug her memories through the generations at the same place through labels that frequent the streets and neighborhoods. Sheikh Fathi colleague Ms. toured neighborhoods in Cairo and went out to investigate the following:

Fathi Sheikh from Cairo: Not all the streets just houses on both sides and sidewalks and through the passers-by, there are streets contain more than this, d means some memory of some people, but there are streets line on its soil and walls pages of the history of the place, houses are museums at times Champions of some anecdotes which is full of history and methods of books and shelves to be a witness to these tales that have passed this street, and in a city like Cairo abounds older neighborhoods where the fragrance of history and charm of anecdotes and comes on top of these neighborhoods Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood, this popular neighborhood, which is located between the flanks more than forty impact Islamists and Copts registered in the Supreme Council of antiquities, this is the spiritual nature of the place and the associated Sayeda Zeinab mosque, which Stmdt region its name from him.

 Geographical location made the streets around the mosque, the focus of the eyes of many a fan of the House in Egypt and those who visit a mosque, which is creating a big market in the surrounding streets find all Heouhrkh not stop throughout the day, and all of this helped to fame some popular restaurants in the place like a colt and a restaurant that serves beans and falafel, as well as hoarseness in Nasiriyah, which sells chubby Almmbar and some other restaurants.

Sayeda Zeinab was a neighborhood called ancient arches lions That's because and to Egypt Zahir Baybars initially set up arches the place to raise the water to the castle where the government headquarters of Egypt at the time and was arches built on a branch small Neil at that time, up the Nile in the Red Sea when it and Zain this Barrages statues representing lions, which was taken by his motto, and also was in the region of some ponds and the region has not called Zaynab, but in the last nineteenth century during the reign of Muhammad Ali, and the so-called street fronting the mosque Ranger Battalion Port Said Street, which was called the Egyptian Gulf Street where it passes its branch of the Nile that was Rdmh then also adjacent to the mosque, called the street dam street and it seems his relationship with the street name Kanater located in the old place and this street now by sellers of various commodities now.

Perhaps the traditional folk frame in the neighborhood is not only derived from Ms. mosque but from the large number of archaeological sites by private Islamic ones like the famous mosque, Ahmed bin Talon who tells him Ibrahim al-Najjar, professor of Islamic monuments, is the third mosque was established in Egypt after the Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque, the Mosque of the military that the demolition did not keep anything from him, which is the largest area but the biggest mosques in Africa .. built by Prince Ahmed Ibn Tulun, founder Tulunid State is the only effects the rest of the city Alktaea the inception son Talon as the capital of Egypt, this mosque has architecturally outstanding and has a minaret unique kind and behind the mosque is located Alkriteleyh House, which became a museum now and consists of two houses was set up, one of them in the 16th century and the other in the seventeenth century and in 1935 offered Major Gayer Andursun who was among the Englishmen who served in the British army and Egypt in the Nile Valley request to the Committee on the effects of officers Arab that dwells in the two verses that the Ptotathma on the Arab-Islamic-style displays in which his collection of archaeological precious collectibles archaeological Islamic that this furniture and a range of precious effects become king of the Egyptian nation after his death or when to leave Egypt completely .. has accept Ondursun after approval by the Committee on currently organizing betaine in vim and spent huge amounts of money on the purchase of furniture and artifacts from the ancient houses and Antiquities markets in Egypt and other countries gathered a large collection of artifacts that belong to different Islamic eras scattered places they are from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor, Iran, the Caucasus industry and some antiques from the Far East and China Moreover, some European antiques. After Ondursun died in 1940 and Al El Petén and to the interests of the two effects that made them a museum spokesman Gayer Ondursuna encompassed more than 11,000 effect.

And not far from the house Alkriteleyh There are a number of fountains, such as for M Abbas and for the six valid for Bashir Agha Mosque and the holy Qitbaa and mosque Lajin Syafi'ie is this effect in Abdul Majid frankincense street or Mrasena as they are called people of the region on the street, a street up area Caliph artifacts.

 Ali Zaini 65 in one neighborhood veterans population says Ali Mrasena street with a lot of water fountains that we memorize the Quran at the hands of the elders of Al-Azhar, even thirty years ago as well as the street by Lajin Saifi Mosque injury earthquake, 92, is the wooden poles The topic has been a pillar of the walls is also for Ibrahim Bey Manesterly surrounded by piles Junk and sand, and the shrine of Sidi forty and adjacent property collapsed part of it can be entirely on the place fall apart, and others, and other historical buildings who are all in urgent 

need of restoration and adds cousin Ali Elaf Mesh meaning that we have raised a very important outfit Al-Azhar and the Ibn Tulun and others that we neglect the buildings relics Tanih and is commented on by Najjar saying Unfortunately this region is suffering the effects more severe suffering, and the fact that the Supreme Council of antiquities plans and historic Cairo did not reach this area, despite its importance, it is added to the architecture of the Mamluk especially mosque Lajin Saifi Amir Hajj, who lost half area, this mosque has been affected by the flood waters of the dam by virtue of its proximity to the street, and there is no longer part of an archaeological only entrance and minaret has been restored in the Ottoman era, and, for Qpti Singer and diesel they excelled from religious facilities, but with this there are some relics in this region has already been restored, such as for M Abbas mosque of Ibn Talon and Bey mosque in the ram Castle and mosque Hassan PashaTahir swimming elephant .. and because most of the effects of the region is a mosque or fountains were memorizing the Koran, and because this region in Egypt, which he said James Henry Brsteid in his book months (the dawn of conscience): Indeed, the life, thought and religion mingled in the Egyptian mind since ancient 

times the expanding inextricably consisting of himself and one block is the religiosity of this was to mosques a special place at the Egyptian private-associated house and, of course, the foremost of Sayeda Zeinab mosque, which was initially a shrine located on the Gulf but it was his position when the Egyptians and the governors also have? ? Successive? ?Countries? ? And successively? ? Princes? ? Both? ?who are they? ?interested? ? Service? ? Shrine? ? Where reforms have been carried out during the reign of Muizz Fatimid and Mustansir Fatimid and King fair ibn Ayyub and the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and Prince Ottoman Abdulrahman Katakhda, and Muhammad Ali, the Khedive Abbas Khedive Tawfiq, the mosque now exists is created Khedive Tawfiq, it was built in 1302 e 1884, as it is written above the mihrab, and in the reign of King Farouk was expanded mosque from the tribal (South), opened a prayer Friday year and was the last expansions are carried out by the Egyptian state a few years ago and despite the many lawsuits that the shrine mosque does 

not belong to the granddaughter of the Messenger of Allah be upon him and some peace based on some references with, but the firm, which expunged from the minds of the Egyptians that he Mausoleum and mosque, who clung to his love of the family of the Prophet.