Among several honors, this park is listed as one of the world’s sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS).[1] The park was createdby the Historic Cities Support Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), an entity of the Aga Khan Development Network(AKDN). The park, developed at a cost in excess of USD $30 million, was a gift to Cairo from Aga Khan IV: a descendant of the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who founded the city of Cairo in the year 969.
View of Mosque of Muhammad Ali from Studio Masr Restaurant
The park project, a great urbanism initiative, included
- the development of the park
- archeology involving a 12th-century Ayyubidwall
- historic building rehabilitation (the 14th Century Umm Sultan Shaban Mosque, the 13th century Khayrbek complex, and the Darb Shoughlan School)
- several quality of life improvement initiatives requiring skills training, area rehabilitation, microfinance, and support in the areas of health and education, among others .
All these information by the Wikipedia.
