Daher, Egypt

El Daher, or El Zaher (Arabic: الظاهر‎, IPA: [edˈdɑːheɾ, ezˈzˤɑːheɾ]), is one of the districts of Cairo, Egypt. It neighbours the districts of Abbaseya and Sakakini.

For other uses, see Daher (disambiguation).
Church of Gregory the Illuminator, an Armenian Catholic church in the district

El Zaher is named after al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari, who was a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, whose memoirs were recorded in the a long Arabic folkloric tale Sirat al-Zahir Baibars.

Sakakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a wealthy, famous, family of Syrian origin, whose patriarch (head of the family), Count Gabriel Habib Sakakini Pasha (1841-1923), had built a palace and a church in the area in 1897.[1] In addition, Sakakini Pasha is known to have established the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo.[2]

Postal code

11563

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References
  1. Egy.com Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Report on Sakakini Pasha's granddaughter Asma el Bakri


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