History of Tahrir Square!
Learn about the history of Tahrir Square.
Tahrir Square and the center of the country were originally called Sheikh Al-Abit... in the year 1300 AD during the time of Sultan Qalawun, there was a Mamluk prince named Karim Al-Din Al-Kabeer who worked as the special beholder of the Sultan. People are supplications, but unfortunately, nothing remains as it was. I took a piece of land in the form of an island near Cairo and the Citadel, and I built a large mosque on it. This island was between Zamalek Island, Manial and Bulaq nowadays, because of that it was called the middle island. At this time, there was a crazy person who was walking in the middle People say any words and it is said that he was from one of the scholars of Al-Azhar, and he began to wear a piece of clothing, and he fell in love with God, and there were no dignity and prayers answered. The Great Mosque of Karim Al-Din, its maqam, mausoleum, and mawlid, and since that day the mosque has become its name..
Demolishing the mosque and building houses.
Because the mosque was the oldest on the island, when people started building houses, they called it Sheikh Al-Abit Island. Years passed and Khedive Ismail ruled.
Egypt and decides to build New Cairo and identifies downtown as the capital of the Khedive. He wanted to build two palaces in a special location, one called the Great Saraya and the second was called the Little Saraya. So he caught the eye of Sheikh Al-Abit Island, its location is excellent between the river bank and its course, so he decided to buy all
Houses and their palaces and demolishing them. The first thing was some of the houses and the building of the Little Saraya, and when he finished, he decided to build the Grand Saraya, but the debts increased and the budget was huge, about (38,820 pounds).
He has dignity. Khedive Ismail stopped the project and was satisfied with the small Saraya.
.The beginning of the Square
But in spite of everything, he built streets, made squares, and built houses in the French and English style, and the field in the middle of Al-Abit Island was called Ismailia Square. Years passed and King Farouk decided to honor Khedive Ismail’s grandmother by building a statue of him.
In the center of Cairo, to commemorate his memory, he wanted to put the statue in front of the Sheikh Al-Abit Mosque, but he believed that it was not true that the statue of his grandfather in front of the Sheikh Al-Abit Mosque, he decided to demolish the mosque and build a larger mosque called the King Farouk Mosque. At this time, the 1952 Free Officers revolution took place.
They revolted against King Farouk and Varda, and Egypt became from the monarchy to the republican regime, and in the rule of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, he decided that he would demolish the Sheikh Al-Abet Mosque and build a larger mosque and named it after the late leader Omar Makram, and a statue was made and placed in front of the opposite side.
To immortalize and obliterate the history of Sheikh Al-Abit once and for all. As for the Little Saraya of Khedive Ismail, it was transferred to the Tahrir complex, and a statue of Omar Makram was placed in its surroundings. The second part was transferred to the old Foreign Ministry building and the name of the square was changed from the name of Al-Abit Square to Ismailia to Tahrir Square, from which the Tahrir revolution took place on 28 Glorious January.
A tour through Tahrir Square after the renovation.
After the Tahrir Squares were renewed over these years, it was renewed in 2021 to the best Tahrir Square in Egypt, after it was Al-Abit Square, then Ismailia Square, and then to Tahrir Square. The Tahrir Square became an essential part in Egypt. Many tourists visit and cross fromTahrir Square, so that they know the history of this field and really enjoy this history that Egypt is the best human civilization that exists on the planet Earth.
And this was all the information about the history of Tahrir Square
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