Egypt civilization

Abdeen neighborhood

Abdeen neighborhood bears the name of a brigade of the Egyptian army in the era of Muhammad Ali Abdeen is your built-in the same place of the current Palace Abdeen palace to dwell in it and it was one of the most prominent commanders of Egypt's army, which address the campaign England known as the Fraser campaign in Alhamadwi signed in April 1807, where the British army retreated Bkiedhollym Stuartala Alexandria after the Egyptian army address it in cooperation with the people of Rosetta and Damanhour. Abidin also participated in your 1813 campaign Muhammad Ali sent to the Arabian Peninsula to suppress the Wahhabi movement, so as a senior aide to Toson Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali, commander campaign.

the castle

Among the most famous monuments Quarter, the Citadel of Saladin

The castle was always a symbol of control over the rule of Egypt until recently

It was always the ruling of the castle is to be under his control

Citadel of Saladin Ayoubi Cairo. Built in the period 1176 until 1183, using the captives. He said the Muhammad Ali mosque. Was the seat of power in Egypt since the time of Saladin (1183) until the transfer of Khedive Ismail, the seat of government to Abdeen Palace, which was built for this purpose in holding the 1860 Cairo Citadel is located in the neighborhood "fortress" - the successor - has been erected on a separate onshore from the cliffs on the outskirts of the city of Cairo.

Saladin in Cairo Citadel is one of the most luxurious military castles built in the Middle Ages strategic Vemoqaha first class, including the location of the defensive importance provided because it controls the cities of Cairo and Fustat, as it constitutes a natural barrier is high between the two cities as it is on this site can provide communication between the castle and town in the state of siege as it will become the last bastion of a sit-in in case if the city fell to the enemy

سوق بولاق الدكرور سنة 1910

Bulaq Dakrur neighborhood

منطقةبولاق الدكرور سنة1889

Bulaq Dakrur neighborhood, one of the ancient villages and appeared in "bureaucracy laws masterpiece guidance" in the name of Bulaq and origin of the name the word Bulaq is Blaq broken Alaba, an ancient Egyptian word meaning the anchor or supplied was launched this name on the Bulaq because they were supplied by the establishment of Giza and a character name to Bulaq ..

Which is repeated later in the reign of Sultan

سوق بولاق الدكرور حاليا

However, the renamed Bulaq Dakrur dating back to the reign of Caliph Muizz Fatimid when he came Bulaq Sheikh Abu Muhammad Yusuf bin Abdullah Dakroury (now his place is behind the Agricultural Museum at the beginning of October Bridge opposite Mrsh Orman junior high school Giza secondary) people think the good and righteousness in the name of the village Vasthrt Bulaq Dakroury the Bulaq Dakrur residences are located on the western shore of the Nile in the north of the village of Dokki residence time that the Nile was going on under the above-mentioned villages housing and it Saqatan first known statement Sawy and second Saqiat Khawaja.

Thus was the beginning of a name on the Egyptian Bulaq District.

Months Street Bulaq Dakrur is Nahia Street, where starts and ends in the Bulaq district Nahia Bkrdash

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.

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.