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Built in 1912, this Renaissance Revival-style building was constructed to house the Cairo Board of Trade and various other commercial tenants in the then-thriving city of Cairo, Illinois. The building is characterized by its red brick exterior, orange brick accents, recessed window bays on the front facade flanking a wide three-story bay window clad in pressed metal at the center of the front facade, a decaying metal cornice with brackets and dentils, paired one-over-one double-hung windows with terra cotta sills, a rusticated first floor, and large bays on the first floor that once contained multiple commercial storefronts, flanking the entrance to the building’s lobby, which provided access to office space on the second, third, and fourth floors. The building is a contributing structure in the Cairo Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Today, the building, like many of the remaining structures in Downtown Cairo, is abandoned and decaying, with the front bay window having lost many pieces of its pressed metal spandrels, the side and rear facades becoming overgrown with vegetation, and vegetation beginning to emerge from the building’s parapet. The building, located at 218 7th Street, is a common photographic subject used to represent the decay of Cairo, and is colloquially known as the "Special Offer" building after a hand-painted sign on the lower portion of the facade.
In 2015 they stopped people visiting Cairo Tower alone after a suicide, although they're a bit more relaxed about visitors now. The 187-metre tower is the tallest point in the city and has a great view over Zamalek island and the surrounds, including the distant pyramids. Its architect, Naoum Shebib, invoked the pharaonic lotus plant with his lattice design.
Cairo has a populaton of 22 million people. It's main religion is Islam (like all of Egypt) and that is what "surrounds" everyday life. Poverty, dirt, traffic and overpopulation I think are the main characteristics of the country and those catgorize it as a 3rd world country. Whether someone can "overcome" that situation will allow him/her to get a closer look to the spirit of the land. Anyway, be carefull with what you eat or drink!
View from my Hotel room in Cairo, Egypt
you can also see the Nilo river!
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Cairo, a town founded around 1840 at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on the southern tip of Illinois, had a population of over 15,000 in 1920. At the 2020 census its population was 1,733. The town prospered with the steamboat industry in the 19th century, but its vulnerability to flooding together with the advent of barge transportation and construction of rail and highway bridges across the rivers reduced its commercial appeal. Racial tensions compounded its problems; its population continues to decline. The town now has a large number of dilapidated structures, some covered in vegetation.
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Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is the 12th-largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people.
The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries).
Cairo has since become a longstanding centre of political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site status in 1979. Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC.
Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industry in the Arab world, as well as Egypt's oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
Cairo, like many other megacities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. The Cairo Metro, opened in 1987, is the oldest metro system in Africa, and ranks amongst the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides. The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East in 2005, and 43rd globally on Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Cities Index.
The Cairo Hotel, at 1615 Q St NW, was designed and built by architect/developer T. Franklin Schneider in 1894, based on inspiration from Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The 12-floor building seemed monstrously tall; neighbors' widespread dismay ultimately led to the passage of the 1899 Height of Buildings Act, which has kept taller buildings from being built in Washington ever since. The Cairo has been a condominium since 1979. This postcard is from 1951.
The Saladin Citadel of Cairo is a medieval Islamic fortification in ِEgypt,
It is now a preserved historic site, with mosques and museums.
location: on Mokattam Mountain near the center of Cairo,
Cairo Egypt
Construction site of the biggest Museum in the world. Egypt received loan from Japan to build it.
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is the 12th-largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people.
The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries).
Cairo has since become a longstanding centre of political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site status in 1979. Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC.
Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industry in the Arab world, as well as Egypt's oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
Cairo, like many other megacities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. The Cairo Metro, opened in 1987, is the oldest metro system in Africa, and ranks amongst the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides. The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East in 2005, and 43rd globally on Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Cities Index.
Al-Rifa'i Mosque is located in Cairo, Egypt, in Midan al-Qal'a, adjacent to the Cairo Citadel. The building is located opposite the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, which dates from around 1361, and was architecturally conceived as a complement to the older structure. The mosque is the resting place of Khushyar Hanim and her son Isma'il Pasha, as well as numerous other members of Egypt's royal family, including King Farouk, Egypt's last reigning king. The mosque served as the resting place of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the last Shah of Iran.
In the cool breeze nearly 200m above the ground and away from all the noise, traffic and pollution the city becomes beautiful with all its lights reflecting on the waters of the Nile.
P.S this photo was actually taken with a mobile phone not my DSLR so this is a warning to all those pixel peepers out there ;)
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