Bab El Bahr

Bab El Bahr is a neighborhood in , . Bab El Bahr is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ramses Railway Station and Coptic Hospital.

Railway station
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of , . 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.

Hospital
Photo: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, CC0.

Mosque
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a in the of the city of , 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".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Daher and Abdin.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the Western Area of , . 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 and .

Suburb
Photo: ThutmoseIII, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the name commonly given to the core of medieval , a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.

Bab El Bahr

Latitude
30.0572° or 30° 3′ 26″ north
Longitude
31.25181° or 31° 15′ 7″ east
Open location code
8G2H3742+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 702400845
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Bab El Bahr” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب البحر”

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