Al-Azhar Mosque

Al-Azhar Mosque, 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".
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  • Mosque
  • …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (100 feet)
  • Description: mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt
  • Also known as
    “Al-Azhar University”
    “El Azhar Mosque”
    “Jāmi‘ al Azhar”
    “Jāmi‘ al Azhar Mosque”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hussein Mosque and Wekalat El Sultan Al-Ghoury.
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The al-Hussein Mosque is a and mausoleum… is situated 240 metres north of Al-Azhar Mosque.
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The Wikala of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri is a caravanserai in . is situated 170 metres west of Al-Azhar Mosque.
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Bab Zuwayla or Bab Zuweila is one of three remaining… is situated 570 metres southwest of Al-Azhar Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Islamic Cairo and Abdin.
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is the name commonly given to the core…
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is a suburb.
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is a district in the Western Area of , .

Al-Azhar Mosque

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Latitude
30.04573° or 30° 2′ 45″ north
Longitude
31.26268° or 31° 15′ 46″ east
Open location code
8G2H27W7+73
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24749059
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7913965
Wiki­data ID
Q312342

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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: “الأزهر”
  • Arabic: “الجامع الأزهر”
  • Arabic: “الجامع الازهر الشريف”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الازهر”
  • Arabic: “جامع ازهر”
  • Arabic: “جامع الأزهر”
  • 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”
  • Cebuano: “mäsdzed Äzhär”
  • 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: “جامع الازهر”
  • Esperanto: “Al-Azhar-moskeo”
  • French: “ğāmiʿ al-Azhar”
  • French: “Mosquée Al-Azhar”
  • French: “mosquée d’el-Azhar”
  • German: “Al-Azhar-Moschee”
  • German: “Azharmoschee”
  • German: “Moschee Al-Azhar”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Azhar-moskeen”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Azhar-moskeen”
  • Ossetian: “Мæзджыт Аль-Азхар”
  • Pampanga: “Masdzid Azhar”
  • 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 El Azhar”
  • Swedish: “Al-Azhar-moskén”
  • Tagalog: “mësdzed Ëzhër”
  • Turkish: “El-Ezher Camii”
  • Turkish: “Ezher”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть аль-Азхар”
  • Urdu: “الازہر مسجد”
  • Urdu: “جامع ازہر”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Azhar masjidi”

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