sidi bishr mosque

The Sidi Bishr Mosque is a located in the neighborhood of , on the north coast of . The mosque is named in honour of Sheikh Bishr Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ubayd Allah Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Bishr Al-Jawhari, a sheikh from the late 5th-century to early 6th-century AH who lived in Alexandria after coming from the .
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: mosque in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Sidi Bishr Mosque”
  • Address: شارع مسجد سيدي بشر

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Jewellery Museum.

Museum
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The Royal Jewelry Museum is an art and history museum in , . It is located in the former palace of Princess Fatma Al-Zahra' in neighborhood. is situated 3 km southwest of sidi bishr mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Stefano and El Mandara.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in , . The area was known for a landmark hotel-casino that was demolished in the late 1990s. That hotel was replaced by the Grand Plaza, a hotel-apartment-shopping mall complex that includes a luxury hotel, opened in 2007 and apartments, housed in the tallest building in Alexandria.

Village
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or Al Mandarah is a neighborhood in , . is situated 2½ km northeast of sidi bishr mosque.

Neighborhood
, also known as Bacus, is a neighborhood in , . The former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was born in 1918 in . is situated 3½ km southwest of sidi bishr mosque.

sidi bishr mosque

Latitude
31.26157° or 31° 15′ 42″ north
Longitude
29.98519° or 29° 59′ 7″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 3880430918
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Wiki­data ID
Q6856901
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“sidi bishr mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جامع سيدي بشر”
  • Arabic: “مسجد سيدي بشر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد سيدى بشر”
  • German: “Sidi-Bischr-Moschee”
  • Urdu: “مسجد سیدی بشر”
  • Uzbek: “Sidi Bishr masjidi”

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