Great St. Antonio Church

Great St. Antonio Church is a church in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Great St. Antonio Church is situated nearby to the neighborhood Al Daher, as well as near Al-Keyamah Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Coptic Hospital and Ramses Railway Station.

Coptic Hospital

Hospital

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The Coptic Hospital is a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Coptic Hospital is situated 440 metres northwest of Great St. Antonio Church.

Ramses Railway Station

Railway station

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Ramses Railway Station, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of Cairo, Egypt. The name is derived from the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue was erected by former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the square there in 1955. Ramses Railway Station is situated 1 km northwest of Great St. Antonio Church.

Al-Azhar Mosque

Mosque

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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 1½ km southeast of Great St. Antonio Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.

Al Daher

Neighborhood

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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

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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.