Officers Housing
Officers Housing is a neighborhood in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Officers Housing is situated nearby to the neighborhood Western Al Omraneya, as well as near Eastern Al Omraneya.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fustat and Hanging Church.
Fustat
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt. Fustat is situated 4 km northeast of Officers Housing.
Hanging Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church, is one of the oldest churches in Egypt which dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Hanging Church is situated 3½ km northeast of Officers Housing.
Coptic Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 pl.
The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities. Coptic Museum is situated 3½ km northeast of Officers Housing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giza and Old Cairo.
Giza
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
Old Cairo
Photo: Blago Tebi, CC BY 3.0.
Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
Ma’adi
Ma'adi is a leafy and formerly suburban district of Cairo, south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile. Ma'adi was established in 1904, when a railway was built through the area to connect Cairo and Helwan to the south.
Officers Housing
- Type: Neighborhood
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.99105° or 29° 59′ 28″ northLongitude
31.19983° or 31° 11′ 59″ eastOpen location code
7GXHX5RX+CWOpenStreetMap ID
way 776469096OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Officers Housing” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مساكن الضباط”
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Highlights include موقف التعمير باعمرانيه الغربيه and كنيسة القديسان العظيمان الانبا شنودة والانبا كاراس بالعمرانية.
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