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Maadi is one of the most famous areas of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, located in the south of the city on the eastern bank of the Nile River, and the "Old Maadi" neighborhood is considered one of the finest and most expensive residential areas in the Egyptian capital. It owes its origin to Khedive Ismail, during whose reign the railway line was built. Schuman built the world's first solar thermal power plant on its outskirts.
Church of the Virgin Mary in Maadi
Public Library in Maadi.
Decorative inscriptions adorn the gate of the French house of Suleiman Pasha - Lycée Maadi.
The gate of the French house of Suleiman Pasha - Lycée Maadi.
Satellite station in Maadi.
Petrified Forest Reserve east of Maadi.
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Canadian officer Captain Alexander Adams, Maadi's founder and architect of planning, never thought that his small, quiet town would become the unique exception in the busiest capital in the east. In the midst of the daily hustle and bustle inherent in the streets and neighborhoods of Cairo, Maadi and its streets seem to be immersed in surprising and surprising silence as it is not far from the center of the capital by more than ten kilometers south, but it still retains its splendor and privacy within the framework of those voices that called almost a hundred years ago for the establishment of a distinctive and special residential neighborhood for the Egyptian aristocracy, which included pashas, the ruling elite and some intellectuals in addition to the English community, in order to escape the crowding and overcrowding of Cairo at the beginning of the century Twentieth.
History
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court is located in Maadi
Maadi owes its inception to Khedive Ismail (1830-1895), who decided at the end of the nineteenth century to invest in the Helwan area, 25 kilometers south of Cairo, by establishing a spa tourist resort in the small city with lush gardens and sulfur water springs, as well as its proximity to pharaonic monuments such as Saqqara and Giza, making it a target for Western tourist programs. In 1868, Ismail sent a group of experts, including his own physician, to Helwan to discuss the nature of the wells and the possibility of developing and investing in the place. Experts pointed to the important medicinal properties found in the wells of Helwan, so Khedive Ismail decided to build a palace there in 1877 and donate it to his mother and called it «Mother's Palace». The construction of the palace encouraged the sons of the royal family, the wealthy and foreigners to establish palaces and luxury villas in the same area, which necessitated linking Helwan to Cairo by a railway line to facilitate access, and that was in 1880. With the opening of the new railway line in 1889, investors began to buy land next to the road, and the sale at the beginning of the twentieth century resulted in the family of Mosiri, one of the leaders of the Jewish community at the time, obtaining large areas of the Maadi division after buying them from the Delta Land Company, which was founded by the British aristocracy in Egypt.
Canadian officer Adams planned to create the city as a single-style residential neighborhood in the British colonial style through straight streets, the construction of double-decker villas and the front garden filled with rare ornamental trees. The company promoted housing in the quiet neighborhood, and in 1910 the company supervising the development of Maadi established a sports club called «Maadi Sporting» and built golf, croquette, hockey, equestrian and swimming pool, in addition to green spaces, gardens and several buildings for restaurants and hospitality.
In 1912 and 1913, Frank Schuman built the world's first solar thermal power plant on the outskirts of Maadi to pump water from the Nile River to nearby cotton fields.
From the Maadi train station, the streets of the area branched straight towards the main squares in the various parts of the neighborhood, and the two main streets bore the names of the kings of Egypt at the time, Fouad I and Prince Farouk, while the other streets were named after their Jewish and British founders. They used to be called Qatawi, Moisiri, Adams and Williamson, but in recent years they have changed to be replaced by numbers such as Main 9th Street, parallel to the metro line, 105th Street, and others.
With the increasing migration of Cairenes to Maadi, the Jewish minority established a synagogue in 1934 built by the wealthy Meir Biton and named Meir Einim, and then founded the Jewish quarter in Maadi and became a center of attraction for Egyptian Jews, where luxury villas were built for wealthy people such as the Shikurel family and Mizrahi, next to the homes of Ashkenazi Jews from the Altman Wolf, Lifchich and Rothschild families. In the mid-forties, they numbered nearly 20,000 people, making up a third of the neighborhood's population. After that, Christians established a Catholic church, and Muslims built the first mosque in Maadi in 1939, which was opened by King Farouk I of Egypt at that time and called it "Al-Farouq Mosque".
Maadi Landmarks
Supreme Constitutional Court.
Armed Forces Medical Complex in Maadi.
Maadi Grand Mall.
Wadi Degla Club.
New Maadi
It includes the areas of New Maadi from the Wireless Square to the highway, in addition to the puppet residences, Saqr Quraish and the Kuwaiti company's residences, characterized by the abundance of oil companies, the most famous of which is the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company, as well as some other Ibisi companies, and it also has a headquarters for the gathering of artists where some scenes of cinematic films are filmed.
Also, the Arab region is the most popular area in Maadi next to the Basateen area, and the Arabs of Maadi are considered the capital of Maadi because of its availability of shops, crafts and various means of transportation and its location that connects all areas of Maadi.
Maadi in popular culture
Maadi gained wide fame in the Arab world due to the residence of the five adventurous heroes of the police series in it, and many old Arab films were filmed and recently the film Ahla Al-Waqt and Street 18 and parts of the film Sorry for the Inconvenience, and the film «Interest» and the film «Shehata» and the film «Terrorist»