Bab el Shaaria
Bab el Shaaria is a railway stop in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Bab el Shaaria is situated nearby to the mosque مسجد القاضي عبد الباسط, as well as near Al-Dashtouty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bab el Shaaria and Al-Azhar Mosque.
Bab el Shaaria
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 Bab El Shaaria Square at the intersection of Port Said street with that street.
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 Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, 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 1¼ km southeast of Bab el Shaaria.
Bab Al-Nasr
City gate
Photo: R Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab al-Nasr, is one of three remaining gates in the historic city wall of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The gate's construction is dated to 1087 and was ordered by Badr al-Jamali, a Fatimid vizier. Bab Al-Nasr is situated 720 metres east of Bab el Shaaria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.
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.
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 el Shaaria
- Type: Railway stop
- Also known as: “Bab El Shaaria”
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.05512° or 30° 3′ 18″ northLongitude
31.25762° or 31° 15′ 27″ eastOpen location code
8G2H3745+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 1235803722OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Bab el Shaaria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب الشعرية”
- French: “Bab el Shaaria”
- German: “Bab el Shaaria”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include مسجد القاضي عبد الباسط and Al-Dashtouty.
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