Fustat
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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, in Old Cairo
- Also known as: “Al-Fustat”, “Al-Fusṭāṭ”, “Madinat al Fustat”, and “Madīnat al Fusţāţ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ and Coptic Museum.
Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ
Photo: Buyoof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a mosque, located in the Fustat neighbourhood of Old Cairo, Egypt. Named in honour of the Arab Muslim commander Amr ibn al-As, the mosque was built in c. 642 CE as the centre of the newly founded capital of Egypt, Fustat.
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 Sayyidah Zainab District.
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.
Sayyidah Zainab District
Suburb
Photo: Motazhesham2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of Cairo, Egypt. Its name is based on the presence of the Sayyidah Zainab Mosque. It is known for its traditional restaurants, it also has the Qal'at al-Kabsh neighbourhood, which is one of the famous areas in the district, and the Ibn Tulun Mosque.
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.
Fustat
- Categories: human settlement, quarter, and archaeological site
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Fustat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفسطاط”
- Arabic: “الفُسْطَاطُ”
- Arabic: “مدينة الفسطاط”
- Armenian: “Ֆուստատ”
- Asturian: “Al-Fustat”
- Belarusian: “Фустат”
- Bengali: “ফুসতাত”
- Catalan: “Al Fustāt”
- Catalan: “Al-Fustat”
- Catalan: “Fustat”
- Chinese: “福士塔特”
- Chinese: “福斯塔特”
- Czech: “Fustát”
- Danish: “Fustat”
- Dutch: “Foestat”
- Dutch: “Fustat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفسطاط”
- Esperanto: “Fustat”
- Finnish: “Al-Fustat”
- French: “Al-Fustat”
- French: “Fostat”
- French: “Foustat”
- French: “Fustat”
- French: “Fustât”
- German: “Al-Fustat”
- German: “Al-Fustāt”
- German: “Al-Fusṭāṭ”
- German: “Fostat”
- German: “Fustat”
- German: “Fustât”
- German: “Fustāt”
- German: “Fusṭāṭ”
- Greek: “Φουστάτ”
- Hebrew: “פוסטאט”
- Hindi: “फ़ुस्तात”
- Indonesian: “Fustat”
- Irish: “Fustat”
- Italian: “Al-Fustat”
- Italian: “Fustat”
- Japanese: “フスタート”
- Kazakh: “Фұстат”
- Macedonian: “Фустат”
- Malay: “Fustat”
- Malayalam: “ഫുസ്തത്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fustat”
- Norwegian: “Fustat”
- Persian: “فسطاط”
- Polish: “Fustat”
- Portuguese: “Fostate”
- Portuguese: “Fustat”
- Romanian: “Al-Fustat”
- Russian: “Фустат”
- Serbian: “Fustat”
- Serbian: “Фустат”
- Serbian: “الفسطاط”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fostat”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fustat”
- Slovenian: “Fustat”
- Spanish: “Al Fustat”
- Spanish: “Al Fustaṭ”
- Spanish: “Al Fustāt”
- Spanish: “Al Fustāṭ”
- Spanish: “Al Fusṭaṭ”
- Spanish: “Al Fusṭāṭ”
- Spanish: “Al-Fustat”
- Spanish: “Al-Fustaṭ”
- Spanish: “Al-Fustāt”
- Spanish: “Al-Fustāṭ”
- Spanish: “Al-Fusṭaṭ”
- Spanish: “Fostat”
- Spanish: “Fustat Misr”
- Spanish: “Fustat-Misr”
- Spanish: “Fustat”
- Spanish: “Misr Al Fustat”
- Spanish: “Misr Al-Fustat”
- Swedish: “Fustat”
- Tajik: “Фустот”
- Tatar: “Әл-Фустат”
- Turkish: “Fustat”
- Ukrainian: “Фустат”
- Urdu: “فسطاط”
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