 North side of the Sidi Abu Bakr Bridge | ||
| Mīt Namā · ميت نما | ||
| Governorate | Qalyūbīya | |
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| Residents | 21.321 (2006) | |
| height | 23 m | |
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With Nama (Arabic:ميت نما, Mīt Namā, engl. also Meet Nama) is a village in the north of Greater Cairo with 21,321 inhabitants (2006)[1] and educates defacto an incorporation in the extreme north of the district Schubrā el-Cheima. It is worth seeing Sīdī Abū Bakr Bridge.
getting there
You can only arrive by car or taxi. You follow the street west the subway line to Shubra el-Kheima, later called Route agricole to Alexandria (Agricultural Road, Arabic:طريق مصر الإسكندرية الزراع, Ṭarīq Miṣr al-Iskandarīya az-zirāʿ) is continued. In the area of the driveway to the Cairo Ring Road (Arabic:الطريق الدائري, aṭ-Ṭarīq ad-dāʾirī) the village is located south of the Ring Road and east of the Route agricole. The distance between the Shubra el-Kheima terminus of subway line 2 (Shubra el-Kheima - Giza Suburban) and the village is approximately 4 kilometers.
Tourist Attractions
The village has only one important sight: The 1 Sīdī Abū Bakr Bridge(30 ° 8 ′ 28 ″ N.31 ° 13 ′ 46 ″ E), Arabic:كوبري سيدي أبو بكر, Kūbrī Sīdī Abū Bakr, also as Pont de Beysous[2] named after a nearby village. The bridge is just outside southwest of the village. The bridge is 3 km north of the Shubra el-Kheima underground station and just under a kilometer south of the ramp to Cairo Ring Road 120 m west of the Agricole route in the middle of fields.
The bridge is one of the few Islamic structures of its kind in Egypt. It is 80 m, with the driveways 144 m long, 10.5 m wide and leads in a west-north-westerly direction.
The bridge, at least one of its arches, once spanned the Abu-el-Munaggā Canal. The canal was built from 1113 (506 AH) on behalf of the vizier el-Afḍal Shāhanschāh laid out to irrigate the province of esch-Sharqīya. It was named after the Jewish engineer who was responsible for the construction. At the beginning of the 20th century, the canal still ran under the bridge, but is now further west.
The bridge was built by order of Sultan eẓ-Ẓāhir Baibars el-Bunduqdārī, the first ruler of the Baḥrī-Mamelukes, under the direction of Emīr ʿIzz ed-Dīn Aibak Afrām 1266/7 (665 AH) and built in 1487 (892 AH) on behalf of the Sultan el-Ashraf Qāitbāy restored under the direction of the architect Badr ed-Dīn Ḥasan ibn eṭ-Ṭūlūnī, with the south side of the bridge being redesigned.
The bridge has six pointed arches nine meters wide. The top part also forms the parapet. However, the decoration on both sides of the bridge is different.
The north side is adorned with a frieze with forty identical panthers (sometimes referred to as lions) striding towards the center of the bridge. One of the front paws is raised. The panther's face is aligned frontally and shows a protruding jaw, the sheared hair, the almond-shaped eyes and ears. Each of the panthers was carved from a single block of stone.
The panther is the heraldic animal of Sultan Baibars, which can be found on the weapons, coins and buildings of this ruler in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. The Turkish name bars for panthers is also part of its name. The panther is represented on two other buildings in Cairo: in the Madrasa des Baibars (MMC 37) in the Islamic old town and at the Lion Bridge (Qanṭarat es-Sibāʿ) near the mosque of Saiyida Zeinab.
There is no frieze on the south side. In the arched spandrels there are five round cartridges with a diameter of 1.2 m, four of which contain an inscription of the Sultan Qāitbāy, while the fifth is empty. The restoration under Qāitbāy probably also served to perpetuate itself here.
At the top of the bridge there was once an inscription on marble slabs on both sides, which is lost today, with the exception of a few remains on the south side.
accommodation
Accommodation is usually chosen in Cairo.
literature
- : The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. Volume 2: Ayyūbids and Early Baḥrite Mamlūks; A.D. 1171-1326. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1959, Pp. 148–154, pl. 46 f. Reprinted in New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978.
Individual evidence
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed December 17, 2014.
- ↑Description de l’Égypte, État modern, Volume 1, Pl. 74.
