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El Sakkakini
District in Cairo Governorate, Egypt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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El Sakkakini (Arabic: السكاكيني) is a small district (quarter) in Cairo, Egypt that neighbours the El Zaher and Abbaseya districts.
El Sakkakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a huge building built by a prominent French architect, and was owned by the head of the Syrian Skakkini family, Count Gabriel Habib Sakkakini Pasha (1841–1923), consisting of a palace and a church in the same area in 1897.[1][2] In addition, Sakkakini Pasha, is known to have established the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo.[3]
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Famous residents
- Taha Hussein
- The Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was raised in Sakkikini in the 1930s.[4]
- The composer Halim El-Dabh was born in Sakkakini in 1921.
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