In the early 1980s, the local community number 8,000 people, but has now become the largest settlement of scavengers in Cairo, home to about 30,000 Zabbaleen. Feeling safe, people began to get rid of their temporary shelters and began to build houses of brick and stone.
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Unlike most Egyptians, the Zabbaleen built under
Are not Muslims, but Coptic Christians. In 1976, the first large cave temple, covering an area of 1,000 m2 .
Several other temples were also built in the Makattam caves, the largest of which is the Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner. This cave temple can easily accommodate 20,000 people, making it the largest temple in the entire Middle East.
One of the most interesting sights of the special database city of Antwerp is its main railway station – Antwerpen Centraal. With its original architecture, the beautiful station building looks more like a cathral than the main transport hub of a large city.
The Antwerp Central Station building is locat on
Queen Astrid Square (Koningin Astridplein). The first station building was wooden and appear here in 1836, when the Antwerp-Mechelen railway line was open. In 1854, a second wooden station of larger dimensions was built. In 1899, construction began on the third, modern building, which last six years. The author of the original project was the architect Louis Delacenserie, the opening of Antwerp-Central took place in 1905.
The station building is made in an eclectic style
The large central dome is 75 angola lists high. The vault over the railway tracks reaches 43 meters in height, its length is 186 meters. It is barrett strong motown stalwart who sang money dies of glass and iron. The interior of the station is decorat with twenty types of marble and can be compar in its beauty to a palace.