I visited Cairo a few days ago, and I saw it like I've never seen it before. It is for me the Enchanted city that amaze its visitor every moment with beauty, excitement, bustle, love and life.
Just after I arrived at the hotel, the clock was at 2 pm. I went down to the heart of the city, the square of Tahrir, where people crowded, the renewed life and the beautiful landmarks of Cairo, I could not stay in the hotel after the afternoon, but went to the palace in the eyes, the enlightening and the mantel where the Golden triangle that I spent Four years were one of the most beautiful days of life when I was a student at Cairo University, I walked over the bridge of the university and I passed the statue of Egypt renaissance until the Cairo University reached that university which made millions of men inside Egypt and abroad and founded generations of scholars and sages for over a century , it stopped long in Tahrir Square, the streets overlooking it and the threshold square to retrieve the memories of the young people that hung in the heart and in the mind.
I've visited all the neighborhoods I grew up in a young man like the Manial Corniche, Garden City, Al Moady and Almuneer, and walked on foot from the Arab League down to Zamalek and sat on the beautiful Nile cafes and breathed the air of the ancient river and never left me amazed all the time not for a reason but because I rediscovered the aspects A very important aesthetic that my memory did not realize when I was a student studying media at Cairo University!
I went through my first places in Nasr City, in Al-Muneer, in Dokki, Kasr el-Aini, Manial and Roxi, and in Roxy I go to the historic Amfatians restaurant, which I always dreamed of sitting in and I am a college student for the price of its services in the middle of Alsbiainat! Then I threw a look at the apartment where I stayed in that beautiful neighborhood. What a beautiful memory if you relate to a land you love and loves you!
This time I have seen Cairo prettier, and Cairo does not need my testimony as a lover, it is one of the most beautiful cities of Dunya and has historically been named the city of the thousand minaret for the abundance of its mosques. Founded from several cities and to be the capital of the leader of the goats of Allah from Tunis to open Cairo after the foundation of the Fatimid state in Tunisia and its first capital, the al-Samqi District, 358 (969), built a wall around three cities and the three cities of Cairo, Cairo, which includes the city of Fostat, which founded This is Amr ibn al-AAs, year 20, and the city of Askar, founded by Saleh bin Ali al-Abbasi in the year 132, and the city of Alcatraz founded by Ahmed Ben Toulon year 256, in addition to the neighbourhoods that have occurred after the reign of Salah al-Din until now.
Cairo is the largest African city and the most populous in Africa and the Middle East. It is a city district, a province that occupies a full area of one city, and at the same time a large city that is self-sustaining. Although it is the largest city, it is one of Egypt's smallest governorates.
Jewel of the east the city of Cairo is one of the most well-written and historical cities in the east, where it has been dubbed the "jewel of the East", since Cairo is well over a thousand years old, and historical evidence confirms that this city was the capital of Egypt in most of its history, in the history of Egypt, which is about 50 centuries, Cairo in its broadest sense was the capital of Egypt, some of which were due to the adoption of Cairo as the capital of 98 A.D. when he built the fortress of Paplion, whose remains are still present and when Amr ibn El-AAs came to open Egypt, he set up his new capital, the Fostat, near that fort, and then established the town of Askar As the capital of the Egyptian state in Egypt, and then established Cairo in the age of the Fatimid caliph, the goat of God, who still holds the same name until today.
In Old Cairo
I spent almost all nights in old Cairo, there in the Al-Hussein neighbourhood and Al-Azhar mosque, where life is vibrant and active, dark and beautiful nights with simple people in popular restaurants offering their meals on sidewalks or in contiguous folk cafes, worries and arts in all the narrow corners, hawkers and the fabric of life It's all over the twenty-four hours. There's not a moment to stop, people staying up until dawn. Others are eating breakfast at dawn, an extension of yesterday's evening and young men hanging around the ball, visiting Obama, sandwiches prices and rising transportation fees!
In the neighbourhood of Ms. Zainab, where a night-time foothold for hypercongestion is also formed, social paintings are erased from memory, and the strange thing is that the Egyptians who live more than 16 hours a day outside the house do not have any problems with the stock exchange or international politics or the swine flu, every one of them is all over me. The creator waits his power for a day to no condition!
In Ancient Egypt we see that the oldest part of the city is located east of the river. There, the city is gradually being deployed West, and this western part was built on the Paris city model by the Khidiwi of Egypt Ismail in the middle of the 19th century, which marked large neighbourhoods, parks and open areas. The oldest eastern section of the city differed greatly after it had expanded indiscriminately over the centuries and was filled with small roads and crowded buildings. While Western Cairo was filled with government buildings and modern architecture, it became the most important part of Cairo, and the eastern half is the history of the city over the ages for its mosques, ancient churches, archaeological buildings and ancient monuments, knowing that there are also oriental expansions after The Old City is an example of this city of Nasr, which is one of the most important, the largest and most prestigious neighborhoods in Cairo.
The type of building constructed in the city of Cairo varies considerably in the area of the diskette and in a manner that reflects the historical period in which it was constructed, as the historic buildings with large wooden gates, beautifully designed and glazed, are abundant (wooden mesh-design) constructed during periods The Fatimid and Mamluks abound in the ancient neighbourhoods of Egypt, especially Al-Hussein, Al-Azhar, Ms. Zeinab, Bab al-Shahair, the Red Trail and the caliph.
From the historical palaces of the periods of Islamic rule, the Skakini Palace was the most beautiful in relation to the Sakakini Pasha, the neighbourhood of the palace in his name, and the Islamic architecture began in Cairo by the hands of Amr ibn al-AAs, who opened Egypt in the age of Khalifa Omar ibn al-Khattab year (18 e-639) and ordered him For Khalifa to build the first mosque in Egypt which is the mosque of Amr ibn El-AAs in the Fostat which was formerly known as the Old Mosque, one of the most important houses built since the Islamic conquest in Egypt was the house of Amr bin El-AAs in the city of Fostat, which was located about four metres from the north-eastern side of the University of Al-ma' By his creed, this House was so spacious that it was called the city as the Golden Palace and became a house of the Principality until it was destroyed by the fire caused by Marwan II during his escape, as well as the Prince Mohammed Ali Palace in El Manyal.
A distinguished old palaces in Cairo is the palace of Baron Amban, the founder of the Heliopolis neighbourhood, a stunning Indian-style palace.
Cairo has long been known as the town of Althousand Mazanah for its many mosques dating from the Islamic conquest of Egypt around the year 22, 642 m when it was opened by Amr ibn El-AAs and built his famous mosque known in his name so far in the Fostat.
It is an approach taken by many Egyptian rulers who have built many unique mosques in Islamic architectural art, such as the Ahmed bin Toulon Mosque, which was held in the first beautiful and visible stage in the history of Islamic art in Egypt. It has its qualities and characteristics and it also built its palace and called it the playground The "field", which was located under the Rock on which the citadel of Salah al-Din was erected, in the south-eastern part of the palace, the Sultan Hassan Mosque and the Qaitbay Mosque, which is considered to be the Qaitbay group of the most creative and beautiful architectural groups in Islamic Egypt and its importance To the beauty of the group coordination together it consists of a school, a mosque, a road, a book, a shrine and a minaret. The precision of the industry as well as the beauty of descent played an important role in highlighting the beauty of this ancient architectural effect, and Qaitbay also created several houses and agencies and made numerous additions to Al-Azhar mosque, Sinan Pasha Mosque and Muhammad Ali and the Mosque of Abi-Ola, the mosque of Al-Azhar, which was built by the Fatimid, who ruled Egypt during the period 969-1171 m and which became an Islamic university, then contributed to the spread of religious sciences by teaching religion to the people of the Islamic world and Muslim minorities in the countries The world to become the largest Islamic university in the world
In Khan el Khalili!
Long wandering in Khan el-Khalili, one of the ancient neighborhoods of Cairo, which enjoys a great tourist attraction for the visitors of Cairo and Egypt in general, the bazaars are particularly characteristic, and there are also popular shops and restaurants, as well as a large number of tourists and their habitual population. Khan al-Khalili is one of the oldest markets in the east, a little over 600 years old, and his original architecture has remained the same since the time of the Mamluk.
If we go back in time too much, the Muslim historian will read the famous months that the Khan is a large square building surrounded by a yard and similar to the agency, the basement of which includes shops, the top layers include warehouses and dwellings, and this name is named in relation to the creator of Sharif al-Khalili, who was The chief trader in the era of the Sultan's plum year 1400 m.
A tour of the pyramids
The heat was 42 degrees Celsius when I reached the glorious Giza Ahmat for all humanity and it happened the hot weather we went around the three pyramids and it is what everyone knows of the Seven Wonders of the world. And one of the oldest Egyptian relics ever. The largest pyramid in its historical origin, the pyramid built by King Khovou, is one hundred and forty six meters long and now stands at one hundred and thirty-seven meters, consisting of 2 million stones of limestone and a stone weight of between two and a half tons to 15 tons. The second pyramid has been built by King Khbr, which is almost equal to the largest in length, and the length of the pyramid of mending, the third pyramid, is sixty metres.
The pyramids are the graves of their respective property bearing the name of the king who built it and were buried in it after his death, and the pyramid construction here is a stage in the development of the tombs of Ancient Egypt, which began with a small pit that turned into an underground compartment and then into several rooms above the deck and then evolved to take the shape of the runway pyramid by Eng. Emahuhotep, Minister of Pharaoh Zuser in the third and pyramid family, is in the Salara cemetery, followed by two attempts by King Senfur, the founder of the Fourth Dynasty, to build a complete pyramid, but the two pyramids appeared to be unwholesome as they fell into the dahshur of the base and the other took a smaller form after half Engineer Hamono, the architect of King Khops, was able to reach the ideal pyramid and built the Khufu pyramid in Giza on a 13 acre area, followed by a pyramid of Khbr and Manding.
Pyramid of Sinfur in Dahshur
Many people believe that the greatness of the pyramid lies in the way it is built, and in fact that their talk is an aspect of health, for example the largest pyramid is an industrial mountain weighing six million and five hundred thousand tons, consisting of stones weighing approximately twelve tons, and these stones are paved and set to half the king's Ymeter, this is already worth all the admiration of the ancient Egyptian civilization, but much more so, the pyramid is one of the biggest puzzles that mankind has faced since the very beginning of civilization. A lot of people claimed it was just a fancy cemetery for King Khops, but today's scholars believe that this is ironic, the Great Pyramid has been built for a higher and much greater purpose and the proof of that is the astonishing truths of this magnificent edifice, which was gathered by Charles Smith in the Alek The famous repented (our heritage at the Great Pyramid) in 1864, the height of the pyramid multiplied by 1 billion equals 14967000 km, the distance between the Earth and the sun, and the orbit that passes from the center of the pyramid divides the continents of the world into two halves of equal, and the base of the pyramid divided by double its height gives us the famous Lodolf number ( 3.14) in calculators, and the four pillars of the pyramid tend to the four original directions in stunning precision, so that some scientists have once objected to the argument that there is a slight deviation from the original destinations, but after the discovery of modern electronic measuring devices it has been proven that the pyramid angles are the most correct and Finer.
As for the Pharaoh's pyramid from Ka'ra, the famous manding, the scholars noted that it contained a small circular gap of no more than 20 cm in diameter, and archaeologists were able to know the secret of the existence of that gap after a very precise observation, showing that the sun's rays fell through that gap only one day a year on the Pharaoh's tomb. Quite the rush and the wonder that this day coincides with the Pharaoh's birthday.
In Al Azhar Mosque
My tour of Al Azhar Mosque was also in deep admiration of the most famous mosques and beacons of science and Islamic thought since its creation more than a thousand years ago. It is the most important Islamic monuments in the city of Cairo and in all of Egypt when Commander Johar al-Saqly wrote to Egypt in 358/969 by the Fatimid Caliph Almoez of Allah al Fatimi to open it, it was done to end the era of the early state and the age of the Fatimid state, and if the mosque of Amr Ben AAs was first In Egypt, the mosque of Al-Azhar is the fourth of its mosques and the first mosque built in Cairo.
The essence of al-Saqy started building this mosque with the Fatimid palaces in Cairo city, where the caliph prayed and as a place of invitation. Construction began in the year of 359 (970 PM) and the first Friday prayer was held in the year of 361/973 and was known as the Cairo Mosque.
Mohammed Ali Mosque
In the castle of the mountain in Cairo it is the most famous castle stone so many believe that the citadel of Salah al-Din Ayyubi is the fortress of Muhammad Ali Pasha for the fame of this mosque, also called the Alabaster Mosque, a kind of rare marble that I am using.
According to various sources and references, as soon as Mohamed Ali Pasha repaired The citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayoubi, he completed his palaces, Duayneh and all schools, he saw him build a large mosque in the castle to perform the duties and to have a burial. The establishment of the mosque in the Year of 1246 (1830) began and work lasted until Muhammad Ali Pasha died in the year of 1265/1848 and was buried in the cemetery he prepared for himself inside the mosque.
The mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha has a number of architectural and artistic features that have made it unique: its high-rise minaret is about 84 meters wide, and if we add to it the height of the mosque, which is about 80 metres high, the minaret rises to about 164 metres from the sea level, and the number of bodies This mosque was found to be 365 times a year, it was observed that it played musical tunes in a state of tranquillity, and the mosque was marked by the apparent echo of sound when the voices were rising inside the prayer house. The cabin where Mehmet Ali Pasha was buried is located in the southwestern corner of the mosque some, a gilded copper compartment combining Arab, Turkish and Egyptian decorations, mediated by a marble structure with the tomb of Mehmet Ali Pasha.
Nasser Mohammed bin Qalawoun Mosque
This mosque was built about 700 years ago and is located almost in the center of the Castle and was formerly occupied by the south-eastern corner of the square or the spacious area known as the "red" in the face of the castle door and was met by the great Ewan Nasiri in the northwest corner, and this mosque remained the mosque To the castle until Muhammad Ali Pasha set up a university in an interview. He was built by King Nasser Mohammed bin Qalawoun .
The citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayoubi, known as the mountain Fortress, is one of the most important landmarks in Cairo and is located in the "fortress" neighbourhood. It was built on one of the most luxurious medieval war castles in the Middle Ages, and is strategically located at the outskirts of Cairo. The first is the defensive importance of this site because it controls the cities of Cairo and the Fostat and is a natural barrier between the two cities. Salah al-Din founded this fortress on the knoll of Jabal al-Mokattam, and completed the construction of the Fair King's brothers in 1208, with the aim of securing Cairo against possible invasions.
Salah al-Din was fully in the choice of the place of the citadel, as it was in its high position that the supervision of Cairo was fully supervised, to the extent that its garrison was able to carry out two simultaneous military operations, namely, the internal front provisions, the suppression of the obedience of the Sultan and the resistance of any foreign attempts To seize Cairo.
The fence, erected by Salah al-Din around Cairo to defend against any outside attack, is an important war facility that has completed the role of castle in the Middle Ages, a fence that was recently discovered, after Salah al-Din (1171-1193) took over the Egyptian rule in the area outside Cairo. The Fatimid between Bab Zawela and Jama Ahmed bin Toulon, divided into several lines including the Red Corridor Line which is still known by this name until today. This region is spearheaded by the Al-Saleh mosque, the most recent effect of the Fatimid era in Egypt.
In ancient Cairo, there are also historic churches that affirm the ancient history of Egypt, most notably the outstanding church in the old Egyptian quarter, which mediates a range of Coptic monuments and opens its main façade on the street of Margergis.
This church was known as the suspended church because it was based on the ruins of two large towers of the Roman fortress built by Emperor Tragan at the beginning of the second century of Christmas.
Father's Church: This church was established in the late fourth century or early fifth century and is likely to have been constructed in the same place as the Holy Family, when it fled to Egypt from the face of the Jewish king Herdos.
It is no less important from the historical and artistic standpoint than the suspended church and was the first church in Egypt after the abbey of Abu--headquarters where the congregation was housed after concentrating in Alexandria.
