Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of East District

From Ptolemaic tombs cut into the rock to the palaces and gardens of the Mohamed Ali dynasty: the district’s landmarks between Sidi Gaber and El Raml.

A journey through time On the map

8 landmarks4 eras

Looking for a hospital, a consulate or a police point? Public services are in the district guide

Ancient Alexandria

331 BC – 7th century AD

At Rushdy four Ptolemaic tombs were cut in the rock in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC; among the city’s cemeteries, only Shatby is thought older.

Antiquities · Sidi GaberMustafa Kamel NecropolisLate 3rd to early 2nd century BC, found in 1933–1934Four Ptolemaic tombs cut in the rock, from the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC, found by chance in 1933–1934.

The Islamic centuries

7th century – 1850

In the suburb of Raml, Sheikh Jaber al-Ansari, a scholar from al-Andalus, built his zawiya in the 7th century AH, and the neighbourhood took his name.

Places of worship · Sidi GaberSidi Gaber MosqueAbout the mid-7th century AH; the present mosque after 1955A mosque named after Sheikh Jaber al-Ansari, an Andalusian scholar who died in 697 AH, on the site of his zawiya; the old mosque was taken down in 1955 for the present one.

The Raml suburbs

1850–1952

Sidi Gaber’s station was built in 1854 and the Antoniadis Gardens laid out in 1860, and under Muhammad Ali’s dynasty the elite vied to build their palaces in Zizinia.

The district today

1952 – today

The Sidi Gaber Mosque was rebuilt after 1955, Fatma al-Zahra’s palace became the Royal Jewelry Museum in 1986, and the Antoniadis Palace was given to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2004.

Museums · Raml IMahmoud Said Museums CenterOpened in 2000, reopened in 2014The painter Mahmoud Said’s house in Gianaclis, given by his family to the Ministry of Culture and now a centre of three museums, opened in 2000 and reopened after restoration in 2014.

More places in the district

Places the district has published, not yet dated on the timeline.

Alexandria ZooParks & gardens · Sidi Gaber

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121