Al-Muizz Street

Al-Muizz Street

Al-Moez Street dates back to the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Moez, the first Fatimid Caliph of Egypt. The street is currently an open museum that contains many Islamic monuments dating back to several eras, as well as the architectural richness and diversity between religious, residential, commercial, charitable, and military architecture.

The street is located within the scope of Historic Cairo, which was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1979. Al-Muizz Street It stretches between two of Old Cairo’s walls, Bab al-Fotouh in the north and Bab Zuwayla in the south, passing through several ancient historical neighborhoods and streets, the most famous of which are Amir al-Jewish Street, the Yellow Derb, Barjuan, Khan al-Khalili, and Al-Ghouriya.

Al-Muizz Street includes some of Cairo’s most magnificent monuments that reflect a complete impression of Islamic Egypt from the 10th to the 19th century AD.

The historical importance of Almoez Street

Al-Moez Street is named after the Fatimid Caliph Al-Moez, who annexed Egypt under Fatimid rule, and this street has great historical importance, as it is the oldest street with an Islamic architectural character in the world, and it Al-Moez passed in his procession for the first time, where Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi lived, and the historian Al-Maqrizi also lived in it, the novelist Naguib Mahfouz was born in it.

President Gamal Abdel Nasser studied in a school located in it.

This era put distinctive imprints on this street, most notably the school, mosque, and khanqah of Sultan al-Zahir Barqouk, the mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad, and the mosque, house, seat, path and book of Sultan al-Ghuri, which was established about 13 years before the Ottoman invasion of Egypt.