Old Cairo, Giza

Old Cairo (Egyptian Arabic: Masr el Ad?ma) is a part of Cairo that contains the remnants of those cities which were capitals before Cairo, such as Fustat, as well as some other elements from the city's varied history. For example, it encompasses Coptic Cairo and its many old churches and ruins of Roman fortifications. Modern tourists visit such as the Coptic Museum, the Babylon Fortress, the Hanging Church and other Coptic churches, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Mosque of Amr ibn al-'As. Fort Babylon is a Roman fortress around which many of the Egyptian Christians' oldest churches were built. Count Gabriel Habib Sakakini Pasha, (1841-1923) had ; who built a palace and a church in the Sakakini area in 1897. is known to have established the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo. During the latter half of the 15th century, two final major transformations took place in Cairo: the port of Bulaq, and a district called al-Azbakiyyah in the northwest section of the city .

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