Muezz Street, an open museum of Islamic antiquities ... charming landmarks at night (photos)

Al-Muizz Street, which is located in the Al-Azhar district in the Central Cairo district, is the largest open museum of Islamic antiquities in the world, due to the fact that it has fully preserved the archaeological buildings so far, as it includes a group of antiquities since Fatimid Cairo was established, and recently the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities completed the work of the first phase of the project The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to develop and raise the efficiency of lighting the Al-Muizz Li Din Allah Fatimid Street in Al-Gamaleya district, within the framework of the Ministry’s plan to develop and raise the efficiency of a number of archaeological sites throughout the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Works to raise the efficiency of Muizz Street lighting (1)
The work of raising the efficiency of Muizz Street lighting


Brigadier Engineer Hisham Samir, Assistant Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Engineering Affairs and General Supervisor of the Historic Cairo Development Project, said that all work is carried out by the Ministry of Military Production, and includes lighting the street and its internal paths through the use of some types of side lighting, taking into account preserving the historical identity The works also include the implementation of specific and directed lighting on the facades of the ancient buildings with a distinctive urban character to highlight the beauty of the architectural formation of the monuments and decorations overlooking the street.

Moez Street
Al-Muizz Street represents the heart of the old city of Cairo, which was developed to be an open museum of Islamic architecture and antiquities. With the emergence of the city of Cairo during the era of the Fatimid state in Egypt, al-Muizz Street arose, so the city’s layout was crossed by a main street extending from Bab Zuweila in the south to Bab al-Futuh in the north parallel to the Gulf. It was called the Great Street, and in a later stage the Kasbah of Cairo, it divided the city in two almost equal parts and was the political and spiritual center of the city.

The work of raising the efficiency of Muizz Street lighting
It includes a constellation of the most beautiful Islamic monuments in the world, numbering up to 29 monuments, including mosques, schools, cemeteries, bimarestans, fountains, madrassahs, palaces, two agencies, three corners, two gates, and two bathrooms.