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The Muharram Bey Area
One of the most important areas of the city, known as the Pashaad district, retains some of the features of the old town, and the area was named after Muharram Pasha, who was commander of the Egyptian navy until 1826 and held the post of governor of Alexandria Until his death in 1847, he also held the post of governor of Giza and was buried in the mosque of Prophet Daniel, and to honor his heroism, his neighborhood was named after him. was given even farther wide and wide street of the neighborhood. The neighborhood of Muharram Bey, in which the fine society of the barons and princes was displaced after the British bombing of the Manshiyya European district in 1882, to become a center of gathering of foreign communities that created an integrated social life in it, particularly Italian, Turkish Jewish community.
Muharram Bey, regarded by many in the aristocracy, where the neighborhood is distinguished by historical wealth and associated with great names of artists, writers and poets where the great Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim was born, the great singer Lay Muradadria great actor Hind Rustom and brothers SaifAdhamWanli and great housekeeper Muhammad Naji.
Muharram Bey includes a number of large mosques that include the history of the nation, as well as various churches, the most important of which is the Church of Our Lady, one of the most important monuments of Christianity, as it was opened in 1934 and held a solemn ceremony with the Pope, the late John and many of the most important personalities. The church witnessed the emergence of the Virgin Mary over the dome of the church and the protection of her church from a bomb that nearly fell over the church during an air raid during World War II. One of its most important features Muharram Bey is the public library of the Museum of Fine Arts founded during the reign of King Farouk I, the Baroness Charles de Mancha's palace, which was converted into a school of military commander Ahmed Badawi, as well as an old Lavoyer, He founded by the Jewish businessman Abram Adek Bey in Al-Rusafa Street. In the school district of St. Joseph A.
Also, the San Francisco Orphanage, which was in front of the villa of Ahmet Mazlum Pasha, was converted into the sanctuary of St. Joseph in 1885 and then at the request of the residents of the neighborhood it was converted to 1892. as well as the San Francisco sanctuary, the retirement home for retired Slovenian monks who came to Egypt via the port of Trieste. From 1870 to 1950, there is the old building of the School of Science, where many Egyptians studied, including Egyptians, Dr. Ahmed Zewail.

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