El Sakkakini (Arabic: السكاكيني) is a small district (quarter) in Cairo, Egypt that neighbours the El Zaher and Abbaseya districts.

El Sakkakini السكاكيني
district
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Cairo Governorate
Time zone	UTC+2 (EST)

El Sakkakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a huge building built by a prominent French architect, and was owned by patriarch (head of the family), Count Gabriel Habib Sakkakini Pasha (1841–1923), consisting of a palace and a church in the same area in 1897.[1] In addition, Sakkakini Pasha, is known to have established the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo.[2]

Famous residents

• Taha Hussein
• The Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was raised in Sakkikini in the 1930s.[3]
• The composer Halim El-Dabh was born in Sakkakini in 1921.

References

See also

• Khalil al-Sakakini

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