madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars
madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars is a monument in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars is situated nearby to the heritage site Sabil-kuttab of Khusraw Pasha, as well as near the mosque Madrasa and Mausoleum of Sultan Al-Salih Nagm Al-Din Ayyub.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Monument
- Description: madrasa in Old Cairo
- Also known as: “al-Madrasah al-Zahiriyya”, “al-Ẓāhir Baybars”, “al-Ẓāhiriyya”, “al-Zahiriyya Madrasa”, “Baybars al-Bunduqdari”, “Madrasa al-Sultan al-Zahir Baybars”, “Madrasa of al-Zahir Baibars”, “madrasa of al-Zahir Baybars”, “madrasa of aẓ-Ẓāhir Bībars”, “Madrasa of Baybars al Bunduqdari”, “Madrasa of Baybars al-Bunduqdari”, “Madrasa of Sultan al Zahir Baybars I”, “Madrasat al-Sultan al-Zahir Baybars”, “Madrasat Sultan Baybars al-Bunduqdari”, and “Sultan al-Zahir Baybars Madrasa”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sabil-kuttab of Khusraw Pasha and Madrasa and Mausoleum of Sultan Al-Salih Nagm Al-Din Ayyub.
Sabil-kuttab of Khusraw Pasha
Heritage site
Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.
Sabil-kuttab of Khusraw Pasha is a heritage site.
Madrasa and Mausoleum of Sultan Al-Salih Nagm Al-Din Ayyub
Mosque
The Salihiyya Madrasa, also called the Madrasa and Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub is a historic madrasa and mausoleum complex in Cairo, Egypt.
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 430 metres south of madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars.
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.
madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars
- Category: building
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“madrasah al-Ẓāhir Baybars” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدرسة الظاهر بيبرس”
- Cebuano: “Madrasa of al-Zahir Baybars”
- French: “al-Ẓāhir Baybars”
- French: “Madrasa al-Sultan al-Zahir Baybars”
- French: “madrasa de Baybars I”
- French: “madrasaẗ al-Ẓāhir Baybars”
- French: “madrasaẗ Baybars al-Bunduqdarī”
- French: “Médersa de al-Zahir Baibars”
- French: “collège el-Zâherieh” (historical)
- French: “madrasa Baibars” (historical)
- French: “madrasa de Beibars al-Boundouqdâri” (historical)
- French: “mosquée du sultan Beibars el-Bondoukdâri” (historical)
- French: “sultan Beybars” (historical)
- French: “Zahria” (historical)
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Madrasa for al-Zahir Baibars”
- Hausa: “Madrasa na al-Zahir Baibars”
- Spanish: “Medersa de al-Zahir Baibars”
- Swedish: “Madrasa of al-Zahir Baybars”
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