Fustat

Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into . It was built adjacent to what is now known as by the Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first built in Egypt.
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  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: first capital of Islamic Egypt, in Old Cairo
  • Also known as: “Al-Fusṭāṭ” and “El-Fustat”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ and Coptic Museum.

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The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a , located in the neighbourhood of , . Named in honour of the Arab Muslim commander Amr ibn al-As, the mosque was built in c. 642 CE as the centre of the newly founded capital of Egypt, . is situated 360 metres northwest of Fustat.

Museum
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The is a in , with the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities. is situated 510 metres west of Fustat.

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The , sometimes referred to as the Geniza Synagogue, the Synagogue of the Levantines, or the Synagogue of the Jerusalemites is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the part of , . is situated 450 metres southwest of Fustat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Cairo and Sayyidah Zainab District.

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is the extensive district of southern from the southern boundary of down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.

Suburb
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Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of , . Its name is based on the presence of the Sayyidah Zainab Mosque. It is known for its traditional restaurants, it also has the Qal'at al-Kabsh neighbourhood, which is one of the famous areas in the district, and the Ibn Tulun Mosque.

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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is , the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.

Fustat

Latitude
30.00736° or 30° 0′ 27″ north
Longitude
31.23536° or 31° 14′ 7″ east
Open location code
8G2H264P+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1080195900
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Wiki­data ID
Q839456
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Fustat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الفسطاط”
  • Arabic: “الفُسْطَاطُ”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուստատ”
  • Asturian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Belarusian: “Фустат”
  • Bengali: “ফুসতাত”
  • Catalan: “Al Fustāt”
  • Catalan: “Al-Fustat”
  • Catalan: “Fustat”
  • Chinese: “福士塔特”
  • Chinese: “福斯塔特”
  • Czech: “Fustát”
  • Danish: “Fustat”
  • Dutch: “Foestat”
  • Dutch: “Fustat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الفسطاط”
  • Esperanto: “Fustat”
  • Finnish: “Al-Fustat”
  • French: “Al-Fustat”
  • French: “Fostat”
  • French: “Foustat”
  • French: “Fustat”
  • French: “Fustât”
  • German: “Al-Fustat”
  • German: “Al-Fustāt”
  • German: “Al-Fusṭāṭ”
  • German: “Fostat”
  • German: “Fustat”
  • German: “Fustât”
  • German: “Fustāt”
  • German: “Fusṭāṭ”
  • Greek: “Φουστάτ”
  • Hebrew: “פוסטאט”
  • Hindi: “फ़ुस्तात”
  • Indonesian: “Fustat”
  • Irish: “Fustat”
  • Italian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Italian: “Fustat”
  • Japanese: “フスタート”
  • Kazakh: “Фұстат”
  • Macedonian: “Фустат”
  • Malay: “Fustat”
  • Malayalam: “ഫുസ്തത്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fustat”
  • Norwegian: “Fustat”
  • Persian: “فسطاط”
  • Polish: “Fustat”
  • Portuguese: “Fostate”
  • Portuguese: “Fustat”
  • Romanian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Russian: “Фустат”
  • Serbian: “Fustat”
  • Serbian: “Фустат”
  • Serbian: “الفسطاط”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fostat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fustat”
  • Slovenian: “Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustāt”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fusṭaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fusṭāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustāt”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fusṭaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Fostat”
  • Spanish: “Fustat Misr”
  • Spanish: “Fustat-Misr”
  • Spanish: “Misr Al Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Misr Al-Fustat”
  • Swedish: “Fustat”
  • Tajik: “Фустот”
  • Tatar: “Әл-Фустат”
  • Turkish: “Fustat”
  • Ukrainian: “Фустат”
  • Urdu: “فسطاط”
  • Uzbek: “Fustat”
  • “El-Fustat”

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