Street · Al-Darb al-Ahmar, Islamic Cairo

Al-Tabbana

The name comes from tibn, straw, after the fodder merchants who sold hay and animal feed along this stretch.

Al-Tabbana forms part of the qasaba, the spinal street of medieval Cairo running toward the Citadel. It is lined with Mamluk and Ottoman mosques.

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