page_title: Azbakeya
section_title: Modern history
hierarchical_section_title: Azbakeya / Modern history
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Ezbekieh Garden in Cairo
context_page_description: Uzbakeya is one of the central districts of Cairo, Egypt. It contains many historically important establishments. One of these is the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, which was inaugurated by Pope Mark VIII in 1800 and served as the seat of the Coptic Pope in Cairo from 1800 to 1971. Azbakeya was the place where the first Cairo Opera House was established, in 1869.
context_section_description: The Egyptian Museum was established by the Egyptian government in 1835 near the Asbakiya Gardens. The museum soon moved to Boulaq in 1858 because the original building was too small to hold all of the artifacts.
  In the 1850s, the area was renovated during the rule of Isma'il Pasha in his plan to build a modern Cairo. Currently the well known Soor Elazbakeya (meaning the fence of Azbakeya) is a used books market  that originated by a gathering of used books traders by the fence of the Azbakeya garden.
  The Azbakeya gardens theater was the stage to most of the monthly concerts held by the late, most famous and most beloved Arab singer, Umm Kulthum.  
  The Azbakeya gardens is only partially present now as two multi-story car parks have been built on large areas of the gardens.
caption: L'Ezbekieh - Parc paysager public au Caire
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