Al Tamar

Al Tamar is a neighborhood in , . Al Tamar is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bab el Shaaria and Al-Azhar Mosque.

Metro station
Bab El Shaariya is a station on Cairo Metro, part of Phase 1 of Line 3. it is located under El-Geish street in Square at the intersection of Port Said street with that street.

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".

Museum
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The is a museum in , . The museum has a collection of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.

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 .

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.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Al Tamar

Latitude
30.05525° or 30° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
31.25451° or 31° 15′ 16″ east
Open location code
8G2H3743+3R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 708785401
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
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Satellite Map

Discover Al Tamar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

“Al Tamar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الطمار”

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