El Sheikh Mubarak
El Sheikh Mubarak is a village in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. El Sheikh Mubarak is situated nearby to the neighborhood Al Khokha and Al Qanaya, as well as near Kom Ghorab.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fustat and Hanging Church.
Fustat
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt.
Hanging Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church, is one of the oldest churches in Egypt which dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Coptic Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 pl.
The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Cairo and Giza.
Old Cairo
Photo: Blago Tebi, CC BY 3.0.
Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
Giza
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
Ma’adi
Ma'adi a suburban district of Cairo, to the south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile, consists of two distinct areas, Old Ma'adi and New Ma'adi.
El Sheikh Mubarak
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “Atah el Nebi”, “Aṭar el Nabi”, “Atar en Nabi”, “Athar an Nabī”, “Athar an Nabī, Athar an Nabi”, and “Athar en Nabi”
- Category: locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.00008° or 30° 0′ 0″ northLongitude
31.23346° or 31° 14′ 1″ eastElevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
8G2H262M+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 768552659OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
359745
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“El Sheikh Mubarak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أثر النبي”
- Arabic: “اطهر شركة نابي”
- French: “Athar an Nabi”
- German: “Athar an Nabi”
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