El Sakkakini
El Sakkakini is a small district in Cairo, Egypt that neighbours the El Zaher and Abbaseya districts. El Sakkakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a huge building built by a prominent French architect, and was owned by the head of the Syrian Skakkini family, Count Gabriel Habib Sakkakini Pasha, consisting of a palace and a church in the same area in 1897.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: district in Cairo Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “As Sakakini”, “As Sakākīnī”, “El Sakâkîni”, “El-Sakakini”, “Sakâkîni”, and “Salakhanah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bab Al-Nasr and Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque.
Bab Al-Nasr
City gate
Photo: R Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab al-Nasr, is one of three remaining gates in the historic city wall of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The gate's construction is dated to 1087 and was ordered by Badr al-Jamali, a Fatimid vizier.
Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque
Mosque
The Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars is a mosque located in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. Completed in 1268 CE, during by the Mamluk Sultan al-Zahir Baybars al-Bunduqdari through his vizier Bahaa el-Din bin Hanna and Sanjar al-Shuja‘i.
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 the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islamic Cairo and Al Daher.
Islamic Cairo
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Al Daher
Neighborhood
Al-Daher is a district in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. According to the district map, and the census, it is subdivided into the qisms of al-Wayli and el-Daher, or al-Zahir. Some of their better known quarters are Sakakini and Abbassia.
El Sakkakini
- Categories: quarter and sheyakha
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“El Sakkakini” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “El-Sakakini”
- Arabic: “السكاكيني”
- Arabic: “حي السكاكيني”
- Aragonese: “El-Sakakini”
- Arpitan: “El-Sakakini”
- Asturian: “El-Sakakini”
- Basque: “El-Sakakini”
- Bavarian: “El-Sakakini”
- Breton: “El-Sakakini”
- Catalan: “El-Sakakini”
- Corsican: “El-Sakakini”
- Croatian: “El-Sakakini”
- Czech: “El-Sakakini”
- Danish: “El-Sakakini”
- Dutch: “El-Sakakini”
- Esperanto: “El-Sakakini”
- Estonian: “El-Sakakini”
- Finnish: “El-Sakakini”
- French: “El-Sakakini”
- Friulian: “El-Sakakini”
- Galician: “El-Sakakini”
- German: “as-Sakakini”
- German: “El-Sakakini”
- German: “Ẓāhir und Sakākīnī”
- Hungarian: “El-Sakakini”
- Icelandic: “El-Sakakini”
- Ido: “El-Sakakini”
- Indonesian: “El-Sakakini”
- Interlingua: “El-Sakakini”
- Interlingue: “El-Sakakini”
- Irish: “El-Sakakini”
- Italian: “El-Sakakini”
- Italian: “El-Sakkakini”
- Kongo: “El-Sakakini”
- Ligurian: “El-Sakakini”
- Limburgan: “El-Sakakini”
- Low German: “El-Sakakini”
- Luxembourgish: “El-Sakakini”
- Malagasy: “El-Sakakini”
- Malay: “El-Sakakini”
- Minangkabau: “El-Sakakini”
- Narom: “El-Sakakini”
- Neapolitan: “El-Sakakini”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El-Sakakini”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “El-Sakakini”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El-Sakakini”
- Picard: “El-Sakakini”
- Piemontese: “El-Sakakini”
- Polish: “El-Sakakini”
- Portuguese: “El-Sakakini”
- Romanian: “El-Sakakini”
- Romansh: “El-Sakakini”
- Russian: “Эс-Сакакини”
- Sardinian: “El-Sakakini”
- Scots: “El-Sakakini”
- Scottish Gaelic: “El-Sakakini”
- Serbian: “El-Sakakini”
- Sicilian: “El-Sakakini”
- Slovak: “El-Sakakini”
- Slovenian: “El-Sakakini”
- Spanish: “El-Sakakini”
- Swahili: “El-Sakakini”
- Swedish: “El-Sakakini”
- Swiss German: “El-Sakakini”
- Urdu: “السکاکینی”
- Uzbek: “Al-Sakkakiniy”
- Venetian: “El-Sakakini”
- Vietnamese: “El-Sakakini”
- Vlaams: “El-Sakakini”
- Volapük: “El-Sakakini”
- Walloon: “El-Sakakini”
- Welsh: “El-Sakakini”
- Wolof: “El-Sakakini”
- Zulu: “El-Sakakini”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Maydān al Jaysh and Jabbānat Bāb an Naşr.
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