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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 ]
English: The marble floor of Al-Azhar Mosque. Al-Azhar University and associated Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo, is Egypt's oldest university and is renowned as "Sunni Islam's most prestigious university". It was founded in 970 by the Fatimids as a centre of Islamic learning.
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2005 Travel + Leisure Global Vision Innovation Award for Al-Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt [17] 2004 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Cultural Conservation Archived May 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine – Award of Excellence Archived July 10, 2017, at the Wayback Machine for the restoration of the 700-year-old Baltit Fort in Northern ...
A rill fountain in the Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt The Al-Azhar Park in Cairo was opened in 2005 at the Darassa Hill. According to D. Fairchild Ruggles, it is "a magnificent site that evokes historic Islamic gardens in its powerful geometries, sunken garden beds, Mamluk-style polychromatic stonework, axial water channels, and playing fountains ...
The Faculty of Medicine for Girls, a part of Al-Azhar University, was established following the enactment of Law No. 103 in May 1961, which aimed at reorganizing Al-Azhar and its associated institutions. The initiative to create this faculty began in 1964 with the university council's decision to establish a section for Medicine and Surgery ...
Bab al-Barqiyya (Arabic: باب البرقية) was a gate in the city walls of Cairo, Egypt. It acted as one of the main eastern city gates until falling into disuse and disappearing. In 1998, it was excavated and rediscovered, along with parts of the Ayyubid-era city walls of Cairo,as part of the creation of Al-Azhar Park. It was restored in ...
When al-Mu'izz arrived in 973, the name was changed to al-Qāhira (Cairo). The new city incorporated elements of the design of al-Mansuriya, although it was rectangular rather than circular in plan. [16] Both cities had mosques named al-Azhar after Muhammad's daughter, Fatima al-Azhar, and both had gates named Bab al-Futuh and Bab Zuwaila. [9]