Al-Fustat City in Cairo, Egypt
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Al-Fustat City Facts
The city of Fustat was the first capital of Egypt to be established under Islamic rule. It was built by the great Muslim leader Amr ibn al-As immediately after the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 641 AD. At the time, it included the Mosque of Amr, which was the first mosque built in Egypt..
Fustat was also the capital of Egypt for nearly 500 years after the founding of the Islamic city in 641, but its authority did not cease until 750, when the Abbasid state in Egypt launched a major revolt against the Umayyads..
When and by whom was the city of Fustat built?
The city of Fustat was built in 641 by the great Muslim leader Amr ibn al-As with the help of the Muslim leader Ubadah ibn al-Samit. Ubadah himself supervised the construction of the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque, even supervising the direction of prayer..
These early inhabitants of the city were then almost entirely composed of soldiers and their families, and the layout of the city at that time was very similar to that of a garrison..
Amr also intended that the city of Fustat would be a base from which to later conquer the North African region, in addition to launching a greater number of campaigns against the Byzantine contingent..
But it remained the basic base at that time for Islamic expansion in the African region until it succeeded in establishing the Kairouan region in the city of Tunis in the year 670.
The reason for naming it with this name
As for the reason for naming it with this name, we point out that Amr ibn al-Aas, the Muslim leader, as al-Tabari mentions, after completing the conquest of the great fortress of Babylon, wanted to raise Fustat and then march to the city of Alexandria in order to succeed in conquering Egypt. He found that a large dove had hatched on top of it, so he actually left it as it was at that time and then recommended it to the owner of the fortress and palace..
This was because he succeeded in conquering the city of Alexandria and he wanted to settle in this city, but Omar bin Al-Khattab at that time forbade him from doing so..
He even advised him at that time to choose a location in the middle so that it would be easy to contact him. At that time, Amr did not find anything more appropriate than to choose that location adjacent to the Babylon Fortress, which was under his protection and is now the city of Fustat, considering its name is the center or the impregnable fortress.
Landmarks of Fustat City
Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque
It is considered the first mosque that was actually built in Egypt, and it was known at the time as the Old Mosque. There was a cemetery in its place, but when the Muslims settled in its place, the commander Qaisbah bin Kulthum al-Tujibi had taken over its place and then he was able to demolish it.
Then, when the Muslims returned from the city of Alexandria to that place, Amr Qaisbah had asked in his house about this matter in order to actually make it a mosque. At that time, he had actually given it as charity to the Muslims, and then it was built in the year 21 AH, approximately. After that, a very large number of the great companions stood to free its qibla.
Then, there were actually classes held in it, some of which were for the purpose of guidance, and others of which were for lessons in jurisprudence, hadith, lessons in the sciences of the Qur’an, and even literature..
Babylon Fortress:
That impregnable fortress, where the great Babylonian Fortress is now located in the Coptic Cairo area, specifically at the Mar Girgis station in the subway, where Emperor Trajan, the most famous king of the Roman era from the era of the Roman Kingdom at the time “Greek-Roman era“, had actually ordered its construction during his reign in the second century AD..
This was during the Roman occupation of the city of Egypt, when it was restored, expanded and strengthened by the great Roman king or emperor Arcadius in the fourth century..
The Hanging Church
It was called the Hanging Church at the time because it was built on two of the old towers of the fortress that was built in the Roman era, which is (the Babylonian Fortress), which was built by the great Emperor Trajan at that time, specifically in the second century AD.
The Hanging Church is actually considered the oldest Egyptian church and one of the Coptic Egyptian Antiquities “Coptic period” that still remain in Egypt today..
What is the price of a ticket to visit the city of Fustat for Egyptians?
The ticket fee to visit Fustat for adults is: 10 Egyptian pounds.
The ticket fee for visiting Fustat for Egyptian students is: 5 Egyptian pounds.
What is the price of a ticket to visit the city of Fustat for foreigners?
The ticket fee to visit Fustat is: 20 Egyptian pounds.
If the visitor is a foreign student, the entrance fee is: 10 Egyptian pounds.
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