Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of El Gomrok District

From tombs cut into the rock to Qaitbay Citadel and the mosques of Bahari: the district’s landmarks across El Gomrok, El Manshiya and El Labban.

A journey through time On the map

8 landmarks4 eras

All qisms8
El Gomrok5
El Manshiya2
El Labban1

All kinds
Antiquities1

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The Islamic centuries

7th century – 1800

The hill of Kom El Nadura goes back to the Fatimid period; Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi lived in Alexandria in the 13th century; Sultan Qaitbay built his citadel over the Lighthouse’s ruins between 1477 and 1479; and Hajj Ibrahim Terbana built his mosque in 1685.

Antiquities · El LabbanKom El NaduraThe Fatimid period; its observatory from Mohamed Ali’s timeAn archaeological hill in El Labban going back to the Fatimid period, crowned by the oldest observatory of Mohamed Ali’s time, once used to guide ships.

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121