Islamic Cairo

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UNESCO World Heritage Site historic district tourist attraction

Islamic Cairo is the historic heart of Egypt’s capital, renowned for its dense concentration of medieval mosques, madrasas, and Islamic architecture that earned it the nickname “City of a Thousand Minarets.”

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Islamic Cairo canonical	13
Islamic Cairo UNESCO World Heritage area	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ historic district ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Fatimid architecture ⓘ Islamic architecture ⓘ Mamluk architecture ⓘ Ottoman architecture ⓘ
country	Egypt ⓘ
hasPart	Al-Aqmar Mosque ⓘ Al-Azhar Mosque ⓘ Al-Azhar University ⓘ surface form: Al-Azhar University (historic core) Al-Ghuri Complex ⓘ Al-Hakim Mosque ⓘ Al-Hussein Mosque ⓘ Al-Muizz li-Din Allah Street ⓘ Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque ⓘ Al Rifa'i Mosque ⓘ surface form: Al-Rifa'i Mosque Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque ⓘ Bab Zuweila ⓘ Bab al-Futuh ⓘ Bab an-Nasr ⓘ Bayn al-Qasrayn ⓘ Bayt al-Suhaymi ⓘ Cairo Citadel ⓘ surface form: Citadel of Cairo Gayer-Anderson Museum ⓘ Ibn Tulun Mosque ⓘ Khan el-Khalili ⓘ Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan ⓘ Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda ⓘ Cairo Citadel ⓘ surface form: Salah El-Din Citadel Sultan Qalawun Complex ⓘ
heritageDesignation	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
knownFor	Islamic architecture ⓘ dense concentration of mosques ⓘ historic urban fabric ⓘ medieval madrasas ⓘ
locatedIn	Cairo ⓘ Cairo Governorate ⓘ
locatedOn	east bank of the Nile ⓘ
nickname	City of a Thousand Minarets ⓘ
partOf	Greater Cairo metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Greater Cairo historic Cairo ⓘ surface form: Historic Cairo World Heritage property
periodOfSignificance	Ayyubid dynasty ⓘ surface form: Ayyubid period Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ surface form: Fatimid period Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Mamluk period Ottoman period ⓘ
religion	Islam ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(i) ⓘ (v) ⓘ (vi) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageRegion	Arab world ⓘ surface form: Arab States
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId	89 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageYearInscribed	1979 ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

City of a Thousand Minarets → hasCulturalContext → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Khan el-Khalili → locatedIn → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Khan el-Khalili → partOf → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic Cairo UNESCO World Heritage area

Sugar Street → settingRegion → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Al-Azhar Mosque → locatedIn → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Cairo Citadel → locatedIn → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

historic Cairo → hasPart → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Historic Cairo

Al-Hussein district → culturalHeritage → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Al-Hussein district → cityQuarterOf → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Police Museum → locatedIn → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Police Museum (Cairo)

Downtown Cairo → borderedBy → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Cairo City of the Dead → locatedInTimePeriod → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Cairo east bank → contains → Islamic Cairo ⓘ

Al-Azhar Park restoration in Cairo → adjacentTo → Islamic Cairo ⓘ