Bab El Bahr
Bab El Bahr is a neighborhood in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Bab El Bahr is situated nearby to the neighborhood El Shambaky, as well as near Klot Bek.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ramses Railway Station and Coptic Hospital.
Ramses Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Coptic Hospital
Hospital
Photo: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, CC0.
The Coptic Hospital is a hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
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 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".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Daher and Abdin.
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 Bahr
- Type: Neighborhood
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.0572° or 30° 3′ 26″ northLongitude
31.25181° or 31° 15′ 7″ eastOpen location code
8G2H3742+VPOpenStreetMap ID
way 702400845OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Bab El Bahr” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب البحر”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Azbakeya and Great St. Antonio Church.
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