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el-Wāsṭā · ‏الواسطى‎
GovernorateBeni Suef
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37.916 (2006)
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Wāsṭā

El-Wasta or el-Wasita, Arabic:الواسطى‎, al-Wās [i] ṭā, is a city in the north of the egyptian Governorates Beni Suef[1] and an important transport hub to the towns in the north of the governorate, including the Pyramid of Meidūm, and to the places in the el-Faiyūm.

background

City map of el-Wāsṭā

location

The city lies directly on the west bank of the Nile in the north of the governorate Beni Suef, about 90 kilometers south of Cairo and el-Gīza and 35 kilometers north of Beni Suef.

history

According to Muḥammad Ramzī, el-Wāsṭā is an old village on the west bank of the Nile that was probably only founded in Arab times and was first established in 911 AH (1505/1506 AD), at the time of the Sultan el-Ashraf Qānṣūh el-Ghūri (1441-1516), mentioned. Your name goes to an island in the Nile, calledجزيرة الوسطا‎, Ǧazīrat al-Wasṭā, back, which was near the west bank. At that time the village belonged to the province of el-Gīza. The name has been since 1230 AH (1815)الوسطا‎, al-Wasṭā Traditionally, in 1270 AH (1853/1854) the village received its current name. The village has been the district center since January 1, 1882.

In travel guides, el-Wāsṭā is usually only used as a train station after el-Faiyūm named, which included a post office and a telegraph station. Baedeker's travel guide from 1891 still wrote: “The place is beautifully situated in a palm grove; Well-tended clover fields nearby. "[2] In Meyer's travel book from 1914 the population was given as 3,000.[3]

According to the 2006 census, the city had about 37,900 residents. In 2018, an estimated 52,200 inhabitants lived here.[4]

getting there

By train

El-Wāsṭā is on the railway line from Cairo to Aswan. The 1 El-Wāsṭā train station is located west of the old town. A branch line branches off south of the station el-Faiyūm from.

In the street

The Autobahn 02 runs past the city to the west and west of the railway line. The Giza-Luxor desert highway runs twelve kilometers to the west. About a 2 Branch the highway to reach the city in the north and the 3 el-Wāsṭā Bridge, ‏كوبري الواسطى, Across the Nile.

By bus

The 4 Microbus station, ‏موقف ميكروباص الواسطى, Is located north of the train station and west of the railroad tracks.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

church

  • 1  Church of St. George (‏كنيسة مارجرجس‎, Kanīsat Mār Girgis). The three-aisled church is dedicated to St. Anthony, St. George and St. Consecrated to the Virgin, the naves of which are separated by rows of arcades. The capitals are historic, while the arches have modern stucco depictions. The central nave has a dome. A U-shaped gallery is located above the side aisles and the west of the church. The altar rooms are separated from the community room with a modern wooden screen wall. The screen wall is wider in the middle than on the sides. Next to the entrance are the icons of the Virgin and Child on the left and Jesus on the right. The upper conclusion is made with a portrait of the Last Supper. The screen wall has icons of six apostles and three saints in the side aisles.(29 ° 20 ′ 23 ″ N.31 ° 12 ′ 27 ″ E)

Mosques

  • South of the Church of St. Georg is the et-Tahrīr mosque, south of the station is the station mosque.
  • 2  Sheikh Ali el Gamal Mosque, in Ifwa. (29 ° 21 '23 "N.31 ° 11 ′ 51 ″ E)

activities

The local football club Al Wasta SC,نادي الواسطى‎, Nādī al-Wāsṭā, plays in the Egyptian second division.

shop

kitchen

accommodation

Accommodation is available in Beni Suef.

health

Practical advice

trips

literature

  • Ramzī, Muḥammad: al-Qāmūs al-ǧuġrāfī li-’l-bilād al-miṣrīya min ʿahd qudamāʾ al-miṣrīyīn ilā sanat 1945; Vol. 2, Book 3: Mudīrīyāt al-Ǧīza wa-Banī Suwaif wa-’l-Faiyūm wa-’l-Minyā. Cairo: Maṭbaʿat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya, 1960, P. 129 (page numbers above). Ramzī gives the vocalization of the placeالواسْطَى‎, al-Wāsṭā, at.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑There is a place with the same name near by Abnūb on the Nilostufer near Asyūṭ.
  2. ↑Baedeker, Karl: Egypt: Handbook for Travelers; Part 2: Upper Egypt and Nubia to the Second Cataract. Leipzig: Baedeker, 1891, P. 1.
  3. ↑Egypt and Sudan. Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliogr. Inst., 1914 (6th edition), Meyer's travel books.
  4. ↑Egypt, Citypopulation.de, accessed on August 3, 2019.
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