- Bab
Zuweila or Bab
Zuwayla (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of
three remaining gates in the city
walls of
historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also
known as Bawabat...
-
Virgin Mary in
Haret Zuweila (also
transliterated as
Haret Zeweila; ḥaret zuwēla) is the
oldest church in the
district of
Haret Zuweila, near the Fatimid...
- Fatimid-era
gates in Cairo, Bab al-Nasr (1087), Bab al-****uh (1087) and Bab
Zuweila (1092),
built under the
orders of the
vizier Badr al-Jamali (r. 1074–1094)...
- runs from the city gate of Bab al-****uh in the
north to the gate of Bab
Zuweila in the south, both
entrances in the
stone walls built by the
vizier Badr...
-
stone and
constructed the city
gates of Bab al-****uh, Bab al-Nasr, and Bab
Zuweila that
still stand today.
During the
Fatimid period Fustat reached its apogee...
-
responded by
killing the
envoys and
displaying their heads on the Bab
Zuweila gate of Cairo.
Shortly after this, Möngke Khan was
slain in
battle against...
-
minarets of the
Mosque of
Sultan al-Muayyad
above the 11th
century Bab
Zuweila gate.
During the day, bath
attendants stoked the
fires heating the qidras...
-
expanded the city.
Three of its
monumental gates still survive today: Bab
Zuweila, Bab al-****uh, and Bab al-Nasr. As the
military viziers effectively became...
- blessing.[citation needed] He
finally decided to
place his body in the
Haret Zuweila Church of the
Virgin Mary,
where it sits today.[citation needed] Armanios...
- II was cast into
prison and
shortly after hanged as a
malefactor at Bab
Zuweila on
April 15, 1517. The body
remained suspended for
three days
before it...
