Bab al-Barqiyya (Arabic: باب البرقية) was a gate in the city walls of Cairo, Egypt.

[1] Bab al-Barqiyya was originally an eastern gate in the walls of Cairo that were built by the Fatimids during their foundation of the city in the 10th century.

[3]: 37  The gate was rebuilt by Badr al-Gamali, the vizier under the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir, as part of his reconstruction of the walls of Cairo in the 11th century.

Outside it was a desert area which was initially by the Mamluks used for equestrian games, a tradition started by Baybars and ended in 1320 by al-Nasir Muhammad.

In the meantime, however, the city's growth and the relative security of the region made Bab al-Barqiyya's function as defensive gate less and less important.

[7] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the rubbish hills east of the historic city were excavated and transformed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture into al-Azhar Park, which opened in 2005.

[9] Another nearby Ayyubid gate further south, Bab al-Mahruq, was also transformed into the western entrance to the park from the Darb al-Ahmar neighbourhood.