Al-Azhar Mosque
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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mosque
- Description: mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “al-Azhar Mosque”, “Al-Azhar University”, “El Azhar Mosque”, “El-Ezher Camii”, “Jāmi‘ al Azhar”, “Jāmi‘ al Azhar Mosque”, and “Jami` al Azhar”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hussein Mosque and Wekalat El Sultan Al-Ghoury.
Hussein Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
The al-Hussein Mosque is a mosque and mausoleum, located near the Khan el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo, Egypt. Containing the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali that was originally built in 1154, the mosque and mausoleum were reconstructed in 1874. Hussein Mosque is situated 240 metres north of Al-Azhar Mosque.
Wekalat El Sultan Al-Ghoury
Historic building
Photo: Casual Builder, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wikala of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri is a caravanserai in medieval Cairo, Egypt. It was built in 1504–1505 and is considered today one of the most impressive and best-preserved examples of this type of building in Cairo. Wekalat El Sultan Al-Ghoury is situated 170 metres west of Al-Azhar Mosque.
Bāb Zuwaylah
Photo: JMCC1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Zuwayla or Bab Zuweila is one of three remaining gates in the city walls of historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also known as Bawabat al-Mitwali or Bab al-Mitwali. Bāb Zuwaylah is situated 570 metres southwest of Al-Azhar Mosque.
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.
Al-Azhar Mosque
- Categories: educational institution, building, tourism, tourist attraction, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04574° or 30° 2′ 45″ northLongitude
31.26268° or 31° 15′ 46″ eastElevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
8G2H27W7+73OpenStreetMap ID
way 24749059OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Al-Azhar Mosque” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Xhamia el-Ez’her”
- Arabic: “أزهر”
- Arabic: “ازهر”
- Arabic: “الأزهر”
- Arabic: “الازهر”
- Arabic: “الجامع الأزهر الشريف”
- Arabic: “الجامع الأزهر”
- Arabic: “الجامع الازهر الشريف”
- Arabic: “الجامع الازهر”
- Arabic: “المسجد الازهر”
- Arabic: “جامع ازهر”
- Arabic: “جامع الأزهر”
- Arabic: “جامع الازهر”
- Arabic: “مسجد الأزهر”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Ազհարի մզկիթ”
- Asturian: “Mezquita d’al-Azhar”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Əzhər məscidi”
- Basque: “Al-Azhar meskita”
- Belarusian: “Мячэць аль-Азхар”
- Bengali: “আল-আজহার মসজিদ”
- Bosnian: “Džamija Al-Azhar”
- Catalan: “Al-Azhar”
- Catalan: “Mesquita Al-Azhar”
- Catalan: “mesquita d’al-Azhar”
- Catalan: “Mesquita d’al-Azhar”
- Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی ئەزھەر”
- Chinese: “愛資哈爾清真寺”
- Chinese: “爱资哈尔清真大寺”
- Chinese: “爱资哈尔清真寺”
- Czech: “Al-Azhar”
- Dutch: “Al-Azhar-moskee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الازهر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجامع الأزهر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجامع الازهر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جامع الازهر”
- Esperanto: “Al-Azhar-moskeo”
- French: “ğāmiʿ al-Azhar”
- French: “mosquée Al-Azhar”
- French: “Mosquée Al-Azhar”
- French: “mosquée d’el-Azhar”
- German: “al-Azhar-Moschee”
- German: “Al-Azhar-Moschee”
- German: “Azharmoschee”
- German: “Moschee Al-Azhar”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “al-Azhar Mosque”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Al-Azhar Mosque”
- Greek: “Τζαμί Αλ Αζχάρ”
- Hausa: “Masallacin Al-Azhar”
- Hebrew: “מסגד אל-אזהר”
- Hindi: “अल-अज़ार मस्जिद”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Al-Azhar”
- Italian: “moschea di al-Azhar”
- Italian: “Moschea di al-Azhar”
- Japanese: “アズハル・モスク”
- Japanese: “アル＝アズハル・モスク”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Азхар мешіті”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Al-Azhar”
- Korean: “알 아즈하르 모스크”
- Korean: “알아즈하르 모스크”
- Macedonian: “Џамија ал-Азхар”
- Macedonian: “Џамија ел-Езхер”
- Malay: “al-Azhar”
- Malay: “Azhar”
- Malay: “Jamik al-Azhar al-Syarif”
- Malay: “Jamik al-Azhar”
- Malay: “Masjid al-Azhar”
- Malay: “Masjid Al-Azhar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Azhar-moskeen”
- Norwegian: “Al-Azhar-moskeen”
- Ossetian: “Мæзджыт Аль-Азхар”
- Persian: “مسجد الازهر”
- Polish: “Meczet Al-Azhar”
- Portuguese: “Mesquita de al-Azhar”
- Portuguese: “Mesquita de Alazar”
- Portuguese: “Mesquita de El Azhar”
- Russian: “Мечеть аль-Азхар”
- Serbian: “Џамија Ал-Азхар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Džamija Al-Azhar”
- Slovenian: “Mošeja al-Azhar”
- Slovenian: “mošeja Azhar”
- Spanish: “Mezquita de al-Azhar”
- Spanish: “Mezquita de Al-Azhar”
- Spanish: “Mezquita de El Azhar”
- Swedish: “Al-Azhar-moskén”
- Turkish: “El-Ezher Camii”
- Turkish: “Ezher”
- Ukrainian: “Мечеть аль-Азхар”
- Urdu: “الازہر مسجد”
- Urdu: “جامع ازہر”
- Uzbek: “Al-Azhar masjidi”
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