You can reach Al Azhar Park via taxi or on foot from Islamic Cairo. Khan el-Khalili sits less than a mile away, while downtown Cairo is about 3 miles to the west. Do not plan on driving since ...

Today at dawn, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi visited Al-Sayyida Nafisa Mosque to inaugurate the renovation work. Prime ...

Ahmed Al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al Azhar Al Sharif, on the 1085th Hijri anniversary of the founding of Al Azhar Mosque. Shaikh Abdulrahman bin Mohammed highlighted Al Azhar’s prominent role for over a ...

He held this position for almost ten years, until he was appointed Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque and Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, on 27 March 1996.

The grand imam of Al-Azhar in Egypt, the highest seat of Sunni ... its population to develop it into a tourist destination. His plan was rejected by the Arab world and many other nations, who ...

Shennawy, said President El-Sisi inspected the mosque and was briefed by the head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority on the renovation work implemented by the Engineering Authority at the ...

085th Hijri anniversary of the founding of Al-Azhar Mosque, the beacon of knowledge and learning in the Islamic world. Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders ...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, condemned renewed Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday as “black terrorism”, criticizing world powers for greenlighting Tel ...

JERUSALEM - Israel will permit some Muslims over 50 and their children from the occupied West Bank to enter Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Fridays during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan ...