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Cairo's oldest mosque still in its original form, with a minaret whose staircase runs outside.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
A nave built over the towers of a Roman gate: hence the name, and the drop beneath the floor.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
The synagogue of the Cairo Geniza, whose fragments are now in Cambridge.
Founded in 970 by the Fatimids, a place of teaching for more than a thousand years.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
A public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
The new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
The khedives' state carriages, reopened to the public after twenty years of restoration.
CairoBoulaq
The Citadel's lower gate, restored and reopened after two centuries closed.
CairoCitadel, Darb el-Ahmar
A necropolis kilometres long where people have lived among the tombs for centuries.
CairoQarafa, Islamic Cairo
A well from 861 that measured the flood and set the tax for all Egypt.
CairoRhoda island
Three kilometres of Mamluk arches that carried Nile water up to the Citadel.
CairoFustat
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
A 1907 palace on the Nile, now an art centre — painted ceilings and original parquet.
CairoZamalek
The sculptor of "Egypt's Awakening", in a pavilion designed for his work.
Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.
CairoHeliopolis
