Islamic Cairo
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.
- Suburb
- …is also known as “Historic Cairo”
- Description: urban district
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Azhar Mosque and Bāb Zuwaylah.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Mosque
Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Cairo and Abdin.
Downtown Cairo
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo.
Islamic Cairo
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Latitude
30.04875° or 30° 2′ 56″ north
Longitude
31.26378° or 31° 15′ 50″ east
Open location code
8G2H27X7+FG
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Islamic Cairo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاهرة الإسلامية”
- Arabic: “القاهرة التاريخية”
- Arabic: “قاهرة المعز”
- Armenian: “Իսլամական Կահիրե”
- Asturian: “El Cairo Históricu”
- Asturian: “El Cairu Históricu”
- Azerbaijani: “İslam Qahirəsi”
- Basque: “Islamdar Kairo”
- Basque: “Islamiar Kairo”
- Bengali: “ইসলামিক কায়রো”
- Bengali: “ইসলামী কায়রো”
- Bosnian: “Islamski Kairo”
- Burmese: “အစ္စလာမ်မစ် ကိုင်ရို”
- Catalan: “El Caire Històric”
- Chinese: “加塔伊”
- Chinese: “开罗伊斯兰老城”
- Chinese: “开罗古城”
- Chinese: “格塔伊耳城”
- Chinese: “開羅伊斯蘭老城”
- Croatian: “Islamski Kairo”
- Dutch: “Historisch Caïro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القاهره الاسلاميه”
- Esperanto: “Islama Kairo”
- Esperanto: “Islama Kvartalo de Kairo”
- French: “Caire islamique”
- Galician: “O Cairo Histórico”
- German: “Historisches Kairo”
- German: “Islamische Altstadt”
- German: “Islamisches Kairo”
- Greek: “Ισλαμικό Κάιρο”
- Hausa: “Musulunci Alkahira”
- Hebrew: “קהיר האסלאמית”
- Hindi: “इस्लामी काहिरा”
- Hungarian: “Az iszlám Kairó”
- Indonesian: “Kairo Bersejarah”
- Indonesian: “Kairo Islam”
- Italian: “Il Cairo storica”
- Italian: “Il Cairo storico”
- Japanese: “カイロ旧市街”
- Japanese: “カイロ歴史地区”
- Macedonian: “Исламско Каиро”
- Maithili: “इस्लामिक कायरो”
- Malayalam: “ഇസ്ലാമിക് കെയ്റോ”
- Maltese: “Belt Storika tal-Kajr”
- Maltese: “Il-Belt Iżlamika tal-Kajr”
- Nepali: “इस्लामिक कायरो”
- Nepali: “इस्लामी कायरो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det islamske Kairo”
- Norwegian: “Det islamske Kairo”
- Persian: “قاهره اسلامی”
- Portuguese: “Cairo histórico”
- Portuguese: “Cairo islâmico”
- Portuguese: “Cairo Islâmico”
- Romanian: “Cairo islamic”
- Romanian: “Cairoul musulman”
- Romanian: “Islamic Cairo”
- Russian: “Исламский Каир”
- Scots: “Islamic Cairo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Islamski Kairo”
- Slovenian: “Muslimanski Kairo”
- Spanish: “Cairo historico”
- Spanish: “Cairo histórico”
- Spanish: “El Cairo historico”
- Spanish: “El Cairo Histórico”
- Swahili: “Islamic Cairo”
- Swahili: “Kairo ya Kale”
- Swedish: “Historiska Kairo”
- Tatar: “Тарихи Каһирә”
- Turkish: “Tarihi Kahire”
- Turkish: “Tarihî Kahire”
- Ukrainian: “Ісламський Каїр”
- Ukrainian: “Історичний Каїр”
- Urdu: “قاہرہ المعز”
- Uzbek: “Islom Qohirasi”
- Vietnamese: “Cairo Hồi giáo”
- Western Panjabi: “قاہرہ المعز”
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