young boy sitting at the entrance to his house in the southern cemeteries, Cairo’s City of the Dead

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For many Cairenes the City of the Dead is a mysterious, foreboding area. Many Cairenes are aware of its existence but few understand this group of vast cemeteries that stretches out along the base of the Moqattam great Southern Cemetery, also called the Qarafa stretches east of the Ibn Tulun mosque south of the Citadel and almost to the outskirts of Ma’adi (a Cairo suburb). This huge area contains many significant buildings and monuments .

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Location: southern cemeteries , near islamic cairo, cairo , egypt
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