Bāb Zuwaylah
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JMCC1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: gate in the Old City of Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “Bab al-Zuwayla”, “Bāb Mitwallī”, “Bab Zuwayla”, “Bāb Zuwayla”, “Bab Zuwayla Gate”, “Bab Zuwaylah”, “Bab Zuweila”, and “Bawabbat al-Mitwali”
- Historically known as: “Bab al-Mitwalli” and “Mitwallī”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh and Zawiya-Sabil Faraj Ibn Barquq.
jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh
Mosque
Photo: Nizar Barrak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad, is a mosque on al-Mu'izz Street, adjacent to Bab Zuwayla, in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. The complex was built between 1415 and 1421, under the rule of the Mamluk sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, from whom it takes its name.
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 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". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 570 metres northeast of Bāb Zuwaylah.
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.
Bab al-Louq
Suburb
Bab al-Louq is a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there. Bab al-Louq square is the oldest square in Cairo, dating back to the Mamluk era.
Bāb Zuwaylah
- Categories: gate, city gate, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.04279° or 30° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
31.25778° or 31° 15′ 28″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
8G2H27V5+44OpenStreetMap ID
way 775853319OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=city_gateOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bāb Zuwaylah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب زويلة”
- Arabic: “باب زويله”
- Catalan: “muralles del Caire”
- Catalan: “Muralles del Caire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب المؤيد”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب المتولى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب زويلة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب زويله”
- Finnish: “Bab Zuwaila”
- French: “Bāb Zuwaylaẗ”
- French: “Bab Zuweila”
- French: “Bâb el-Metoualli” (historical)
- French: “Bâb el-Zoueyleh” (historical)
- French: “Bab Zouaila” (historical)
- French: “Bâb Zoueila” (historical)
- French: “porte de Zaouîla” (historical)
- German: “Bab Zuwaila”
- German: “Bab Zuwayla”
- German: “Bab Zuweila”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bab Zuweila”
- Hausa: “Bab Zuweila”
- Indonesian: “Bab Zuwayla”
- Italian: “Bab Zuwayla”
- Japanese: “ズウェーラ門”
- Japanese: “ズウェイラ門”
- Japanese: “ズワイラ門”
- Persian: “دروازه زویله”
- Russian: “Баб Зувейла”
- Spanish: “Bab Zuwayla”
- Spanish: “Bab Zuweila”
- Spanish: “Puerta Bab Zuwayla”
- Ukrainian: “Баб ель-Зувейла”
- Ukrainian: “Баб Зувейла”
- Urdu: “باب زویلہ”
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