El Sakkakini

El Sakkakini is a small district in , that neighbours the El Zaher and Abbaseya districts. El Sakkakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after 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.
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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.

City gate
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, is one of three remaining gates in the historic city wall of , the capital of . The gate's construction is dated to 1087 and was ordered by Badr al-Jamali, a Fatimid vizier.

Mosque
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The Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars is a located in , . 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.

Mosque
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, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a in the of the city of , 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.

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is the name commonly given to the core of medieval , a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the Western Area of , . 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 .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

El Sakkakini

Latitude
30.05897° or 30° 3′ 32″ north
Longitude
31.26647° or 31° 15′ 59″ east
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
8G2H3758+HH
Geo­Names ID
359884
Wiki­data ID
Q5350670
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Turkish: “Habib Paşa El Sakakini Sarayı”
  • 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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