Street · Gamaliya, Islamic Cairo

Al-Nahaseen

The name means 'The Coppersmiths', after the metalworkers who beat and sold copper wares here for centuries.

Copper trays, lamps and pots are still made and sold along this segment of al-Muizz. The trade names of Islamic Cairo record its guilds street by street.

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