Mit Okba or Mit Akaba () is a former

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, that was incorporated in the 1950s as two ''shiakhas'' (census blocks) in the

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district of

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, as the real estate development of Madinat al-Awqaf was built on its fields. Many of the original houses, and much of the narrow street fabric remains today.

History

It was found by Uqba bin Amir al-Guhni in 665. The ancient Coptic

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church (which also could be a monastery) used to be in Mit Okba which Copts called ''tiMone enAkope'' ().

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Paving the Streets of Meet Okba

Mīt `Uqba Market
Populated places in Giza Governorate Districts of Greater Cairo {{egypt-geo-stub