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El-Gesr Street in Shubra, Cairo.This street, like many others throughout Shubra's neighborhoods, is almost entirely covered with trees. Shubra (Arabic: شبرا, IPA:; Coptic: ϭⲱⲡⲣⲟ Šopro; also written Shoubra or Shobra) is a district of Cairo, Egypt and it is one of eight districts that make up the Northern Area. [1]
Shubra El Kheima, (Arabic: شبرا الخيمة, lit. 'hamlet of the tent', IPA: [ˈʃobɾɑ lˈxeːmæ], from Coptic: ⲥⲁⲡⲣⲟ ϩⲃⲱ, lit. 'hamlet of tent' [2]) is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the Cairo Governorate. [3]
The Hanging Church is one of Cairo's most famous Coptic Orthodox Churches. Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many other Coptic churches and historical sites.
El-Gesr Street in Shubra, Cairo.This street, like many others throughout Shubra's neighborhoods, is almost entirely covered with trees. Shobra (Egyptian Arabic: شبرا, IPA:; Coptic: ϭⲱⲡⲣⲟ Šopro; also written Shoubra or Shobra) is a district of Cairo, Egypt and it is one of eight districts that make up the Northern Area. [1]
Each temple in Egypt, therefore, was equated with this original temple and with the site of creation itself. [14] As the primordial home of the god and the mythological location of the city's founding, the temple was seen as the hub of the region, from which the city's patron god ruled over it. [15]
Shubra El Kheima hosts the Fountain Pavilion of Mohamed Ali Pasha, built in 1821 as part of a palace complex that no longer exists. [6] [7] He chose an isolated palace or an official residence away from the Citadel in the district called Shubra, the construction of the palace began in 1808 and it was completed in 1821. The Palace of Mohammad ...
Shubra (or Shobra, Shoubra) is an administrative region and forms a relatively small area that represents about one quarter of the district with the same name in Cairo, Egypt. It neighbours the areas of Elsahel to the north, Sharabeya to the east, Road El Farag to the west, and Shobra tunnel and Cairo central railway station to the south, the ...
19th century Mena House built by Khedive Ismail, at Giza near pyramids. 19th century Kasr al-Nozha, the Cattaui (Egyptian Jewish industrialist) palace in Shubra [40] 19th century Kasr al-Incha (now the ministry of defense). [41] 19th century Kasr Kamal al-Din (former residence of the ministry of foreign affairs) [41]