Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá
Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá is a water pumping station in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá is situated nearby to Al-Azhar Park, as well as near Al-Azhar Mosque.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Al-Azhar Mosque and Al-Azhar Park.
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 Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 590 metres west of Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá.
Al-Azhar Park
Park
Photo: Yasser Nazmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Al-Azhar Park is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in Historic Cairo, Egypt. Among several honors, this park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces.
Hussein Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
The al-Hussein Mosque or al-Husayn Mosque, also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874. Hussein Mosque is situated 660 metres northwest of Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islamic Cairo and Abdin.
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.
Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá
- Type: Water pumping station
- Also known as: “Great Cairo Water Utility” and “Mirfaq Miyat al Qahirah al Kubra”
- Category: industry
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.044° or 30° 2′ 38″ northLongitude
31.26844° or 31° 16′ 6″ eastElevation
56 metres (184 feet)Open location code
8G2H27V9+H9GeoNames ID
7913962
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In Other Languages
“Mirfaq Miyat al Qāhirah al Kubrá” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مرفق مياة القاهرة الكوبرى”
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