City Of The Dead

While in Egypt, this city of the Dead had impressed me...there were people living in cemetery and the area was bustling with activities. I was informed, every family had its own cemetery area and whoever members of the family would be buried there.....Muslims and Christians have the same way...it is more a culture than anything else as pyramids are also tombs...



The Egyptian government is studying plans to move the historic Cairo cemetery of Arafa – a neighbourhood in which residents include both the living and the dead – to a location outside the Egyptian capital.

The proposed plan would turn 6,000 hectares of cemetery known as the City of the Dead, which is used as informal housing by tens of thousands of people, into a large public park.

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