User:Samnoon32/Burjuan lane

The Barjuan Quarter located in the Jamaliyya neighborhood at Bab al-Futuh in Cairo is the neighborhood in which al-Maqrizi grew up.Where he said: I became acquainted with this name in relation to Prince Abu al-Futuh Barjawan, the minister of the caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and the location of this neighborhood in the Fatimid era was near the square adjacent to the Small Western Palace, and it is known as the “Al-Kharshaf” neighborhood.

Suleiman Pasha Al-Silhdar built a stone gate at the entrance to the lane in the Ottoman palace.There are ruins in it, including the Burjuan Gate, the Abu Bakr Muzher Mosque, and the corner of Nur al-Din Jolaq. It is said that there was the tomb of Ibn Badr al-Jamali, and it was demolished and a small mosque was built on it. It is also said that the neighborhood had the house in which al-Maqrizi lived, but it was demolished, and there was a palace for Khedive Abbas Helmy the First and it was demolished, and its place is now an industrial secondary school and popular housing from the fifties.