Republic & After · event 9 of 14

2005

Al-Azhar Park opens. The Aga Khan Trust turns a 500-year-old rubbish mound into thirty hectares of garden, uncovering a buried stretch of Saladin’s wall in the process.

The Republic & After era

  1. 1952
  2. 1956
  3. 1961
  4. 1967
  5. 1971
  6. 1973
  7. 1981
  8. 1988
  9. 2005
  10. 25 January 2011
  11. 2013
  12. 2015
  13. 2021
  14. 2020s

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