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The Egyptian National Library and Archives (Arabic: دار الكتب والوثائق القومية; "Dar el-Kotob") is located in Nile Corniche, Cairo and is the largest library in Egypt, followed by Al-Azhar University and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (New Library of Alexandria). The Egyptian National Library and Archives are a non-profit ...
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
1961 – Cairo Tower built. 1963 – Cairo International Airport opens. [15] 1964 – January: 1964 Arab League summit (Cairo) held. [4] 1965 – Population: 3.3 million. [16] 1966 – Cairo Opera Ballet Company founded. 1967 – Bab Moshé (Ibn Maimoun) Synagogue restored. [3] 1968 – Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral built. 1969 ...
In 1891, the collections were moved to a former royal palace, in the Giza district of Cairo. [3] They remained there until 1902 when they were moved again to the current museum in Tahrir Square, built by the Italian company of Giuseppe Garozzo and Francesco Zaffrani to a design by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon. [4]
The Fatimids found the city of Cairo in 969 as the new capital of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt. The Caliph Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah gives Cairo its present name, al-Qāhiratu (The Victorious) (973) Egypt's capital moves from Fustat to Cairo (1168) Saladin, the first Sultan of Egypt, establishes the Ayyubid dynasty, based in Cairo (1174)
The Hanging Church, Cairo, built in the 3rd or 4th century. Abraham put together a group of monks, priests and elders. He told them stay in the church for three days for a penance. On the morning of the third day, Abraham was praying in the Hanging Church, when he saw Mary, mother of Jesus. The Holy Virgin told him to go to the great market.
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The Al-Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo, a major example of Neo-Mamluk architecture. It was begun in 1869 by Egyptian architect Husayn Fahmi Pasha and completed in 1911 by Hungarian architect Max Herz . Neo-Mamluk architecture or Mamluk revival architecture is an architectural style that was popular mainly in Egypt in the late 19th century and early 20th ...