Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah

Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah is a square in , . Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah is situated nearby to the metro station , as well as near the city gate .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bab el Shaaria and Al-Azhar Mosque.

Metro station
Bab El Shaariya is a station on Cairo Metro, part of Phase 1 of Line 3. it is located under El-Geish street in Square at the intersection of Port Said street with that street.

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". is situated 1¼ km southeast of Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah.

City gate
, 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. is situated 690 metres east of Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.

Neighborhood
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 and .

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.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah

Latitude
30.05524° or 30° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
31.25791° or 31° 15′ 29″ east
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
8G2H3745+35
Geo­Names ID
7921938
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In Other Languages

“Maydān Bāb ash Sha‘rīyah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ميدان باب الشعرية

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