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Area. 30 hectares. Created. May 2005. Al-Azhar Park ( Arabic: حديقة الأزهر) is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in Historic Cairo, Egypt . Among several honors, this park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces. [1] The park was created by the Historic Cities Support ...
Al-Azhar Al-Sharif is an Islamic scientific body and the largest religious institution in Egypt. Its headquarters is located in the building of the Sheikhdom of Al-Azhar in the center of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The history of the establishment of the Al-Azhar Mosque dates back to the year 970 by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Li-Din Allah.
The museum was established in 1937 at the old building of the Egyptian Ministry of War in downtown Cairo. It was later moved to a temporary location in the Garden City district of Cairo. In November 1949 the museum was moved to the Haram Palace at the Cairo citadel. It has been renovated several times since, in 1982, 1993 [2] and 2011.
Minaret (s) 1. The Sultan al-Ghuri Complex or Funerary complex of Sultan al-Ghuri, also known as al-Ghuriya, [1] is a monumental Islamic religious and funerary complex built by the Mamluk sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri between 1503 and 1505 CE. The complex consists of two major buildings facing each other on al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah street (al-Muizz ...
Al-Azhar Mosque ( Arabic: الجامع الأزهر, romanized : al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit. 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque', Egyptian Arabic: جامع الأزهر, romanized: Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar ), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned as the new capital of ...
Gates of Cairo. Bab al-Futuh. The Gates of Cairo were gates at portals in the city walls of medieval Islamic Cairo, within the present day city of Cairo, Egypt . The city of Cairo was founded in 969 CE by Gawhar al-Siqilli, [1] as the new royal city of the Fatimid Caliphate, with a defensive wall. In 1092, the Fatimids built a second wall ...
Al Azhar Memorial Garden. Al-Azhar Memorial Garden is an Islamic cemetery and a business unit of the Al-Azhar Islamic Foundation (YPI Al-Azhar) [1] that has provided Islamic funeral services since 2011. The cemetery, which is located in Karawang Timur, West Java, Indonesia, covers 25 hectares (62 acres) and can accommodate around 29,000 bodies.
The Historic Cities Programme (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) promotes the conservation and re-use of buildings and public spaces in historic cities of the Muslim world. HCP undertakes the restoration and rehabilitation of historic structures and public spaces in ways that can spur social, economic and cultural development.