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This street, like many others throughout Shubra's neighborhoods, is almost entirely covered with trees.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Shubra</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">شبرا</span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="arz-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Egyptian_Arabic" title="Help:IPA/Egyptian Arabic">[ˈʃobɾɑ]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1107333977">.mw-parser-output .script-coptic{font-family:"Sophia Nubian","Noto Sans Coptic","FreeSerif","Quivira","Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI Symbol","New Athena Unicode","MPH 2B Damase","Arial Coptic","Analecta","Antinoou"}</style><span class="script-coptic">ϭⲱⲡⲣⲟ</span> <i><span title="Coptic-language romanization"><i lang="cop-Latn">Šopro</i></span></i>; also written <b>Shoubra</b> or <b>Shobra</b>) is a district of <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and it is one of eight districts that make up the Northern Area.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Administratively it used to cover the entire area of the three districts of Shubra, <a href="/wiki/Rod_El_Farag" title="Rod El Farag">Rod El Farag</a>, and <a href="/wiki/El_Sahel" title="El Sahel">El Sahel</a>, until it was broken up in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, many places associated with the original, larger Shubra are known as belonging to it, even though administratively they lie in one of the other two districts. </p><p>The larger Shubra is historically related to the city of <a href="/wiki/Shubra_El_Kheima" title="Shubra El Kheima">Shubra El Kheima</a>, although in the <a href="/wiki/Qalyubiyya_Governorate" title="Qalyubiyya Governorate">Qalyubiyya Governorate</a> immediately to the north of Shubra, and contiguous to it. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> <p>Although Shubra is a large city district, the name originally derives from the <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic</a> word <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1107333977"><span class="script-coptic">ϭⲱⲡⲣⲟ</span> <i><span title="Coptic-language romanization"><i lang="cop-Latn">Šopro</i></span></i>, which means a small village, <i>kom</i> (hill), or hamlet, as the area was well known for its rich fields that neighbour the <a href="/wiki/Nile_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Nile River">Nile River</a> before it became a part of Cairo.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shubra is a common prefix for many places in Egypt, most of which originated as villages but may today be towns or even cities. For example the villages of Shubra Bekhoum, <a href="/wiki/Quesna" title="Quesna">Quesna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monufia_Governorate" title="Monufia Governorate">Menoufia</a>, and Shubra Beloula, <a href="/wiki/Qutur,_Egypt" title="Qutur, Egypt">Qutour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gharbia_Governorate" title="Gharbia Governorate">Gharbia</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Qalyubia" class="mw-redirect" title="Qalyubia">Qalyubia</a>'s industrial city, <a href="/wiki/Shubra_El_Kheima" title="Shubra El Kheima">Shubra El Kheima</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg/220px-L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg/330px-L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg/440px-L%C3%A9on_Belly_View_of_Shubra.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2756" data-file-height="1979" /></a><figcaption>A view of Shubra in 1862 by <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Belly" title="Léon Belly">Léon Belly</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt" title="Muhammad Ali of Egypt">Muhammad Ali</a> chose the fields around the then village of Shubra al-Kheima for the location of a rural retreat where he built himself a palace in the area overlooking the <a href="/wiki/Nile" title="Nile">Nile</a> and extended Shubra Street in 1808 from Bab al-Hadid in Cairo, to there.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 'Fountain Pavilion' (<i>kushk al-fasqia</i>), nicknamed by French historians as the <a href="/wiki/Nymphaeum" title="Nymphaeum">Nymphaeum</a>, would be added to the palace gardens by 1821.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the coming decades Mohamed Ali's heirs would turn the area into a garden suburb lining Shubra Street with their palaces.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 20th Century, Shubra developed from cultivated fields and palatial gardens into a residential area. The area around the Shubra al-Kheima village north of the intake of the Ismailia Canal, would become the city of <a href="/wiki/Shubra_El_Kheima" title="Shubra El Kheima">Shubra al-Kheima</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Qalyubiyya_Governorate" title="Qalyubiyya Governorate">Qalubia governorate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the area south of the canal and north of Bulaq called Dawahi Masr (Cairo's Suburbs)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> would become the larger Shubra district of Cairo. Shubra lost its upper-class status slowly after the tramway was built in 1902 connecting it to the rest of Cairo, turning into a <a href="/wiki/Cosmopolitanism" title="Cosmopolitanism">cosmopolitan</a> <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working-class</a> and merchant <a href="/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class">middle-class</a> neighbourhood with numerous cinemas and theatres.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tram was removed in the 1990s as <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Metro_Line_2" title="Cairo Metro Line 2">Cairo Metro Line 2</a> was being dug,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and today the only remaining palatial buildings are the Fountain Pavillion in Shubra al-Kheima, erroneously named Mohamed Ali's Palace,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and prince <a href="/wiki/Prince_Omar_Toussoun" title="Prince Omar Toussoun">Omar Tousson's</a> palace that was converted into a public school in the 1950s, then later abandoned and is now in the Rod al-Farag district.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sard Shubra Archive was established in 2021 to preserve histories of Shubra through ephemeral materials including tram tickets, images of historic churches and concert halls, film posters, and legal documents. Sard is housed in the family apartment of founder Mina Ibrahim, an anthropology researcher from Shubra,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and registered with the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Industry,_Trade_and_Small_Industries" title="Ministry of Industry, Trade and Small Industries">Egyptian Ministry of Internal Trade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_Shubra">Modern Shubra</h2></div> <p>The present-day Shubra district is the smaller of the three districts that make up the original Shubra, and is bounded from the west by Shubra Street and the Rod al-Farag district, the south by the <a href="/wiki/Ramses_Station" title="Ramses Station">Ramses Station</a> (Ban al-Hadid) and train yards, and from the west by Ahmed Hilmi Street and the Sharabiya district, and to the north by Khulusi Street and al-Sahel district.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had an estimated 76,695 residents in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Greater Shubra has the highest concentration of Coptic Christians in Cairo.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are several churches throughout the district's neighborhoods, such as the decades-old Church of <a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Coptic_Orthodox_Church_Massarra" title="St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church Massarra">St. Mary in Massarra</a> and St. George, El-Geushi. </p><p>Shubra is served by <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Metro" title="Cairo Metro">Cairo Metro</a> Line 2, with stations all located under the main Shubra street. There are a large number of mosques in Shubra. One of the most renowned mosques in Shubra is <i>el Khazen Dar</i> (<a href="/wiki/Hazinedar" title="Hazinedar">Hazindar</a>) mosque, which is named after an occupation at the time of the Ottoman Empire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administrative_subdivisions">Administrative subdivisions</h2></div> <p>Shubra is sub-divided into four <i>shiakhas</i> (smallest census blocks) that do not have any administrative duties: </p> <ul><li>Al-Tir'a al-Bûlâqiyya</li> <li>Al-Shamâshirgî</li> <li>Al-Attâr</li> <li>Gisr Shubrâ</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cairo_-_Shubra_District_Map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Cairo_-_Shubra_District_Map.jpg/220px-Cairo_-_Shubra_District_Map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" 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particularly Saint Antonious Church in Shubra.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Bishop Moussa, Bishop of Youth, attended and served the churches in Shubra before being a monk.</li> <li>Bishop Raphael, General Bishop of down town Cairo, attended and served the churches in Shubra before being a monk.</li> <li>Bishop Youssef, was also attending and serving Saint Antonious Church in Shubra, before joining St. Mary Monastery (EL-Sorian) as a monk.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Father Raphael Ava Mina (candidate of the 2012 Papacy elections) used to live in Shubra (Gezerat Badran).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalida" title="Dalida">Dalida</a>, a famous French-Egyptian-Italian singer was born in Shubra in 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suad_Nasr" title="Suad Nasr">Suad Nasr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milad_Hanna" title="Milad Hanna">Milad Hanna</a>, professor, writer and political activist.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output 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