Mokattam

The Mokattam (Egyptian Arabic: المقطم  [elmoˈʔɑtˤ.tˤɑm], also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt.

[1][2][3] The Arabic name Mokattam means cut off or broken off and apparently refers to how the low range of hills is divided into three sections.

[6] In the past the low mountain range was an important ancient Egyptian quarry site for limestone, used in the construction of temples and pyramids.

[8] The Zabbaleen people, who are an integral part of collecting and processing Cairo's municipal solid waste, live in Manshiyat Naser, Garbage City, at the foot of the Mokattam Hills.

Moreover, the top division club Al Mokawloon Al Arab SC actually lies on the border of the Mokkattam mountain.Mokattam is widely known in the Coptic Church, as it is believed that the mountain has moved up and down when the Coptic Pope Abraham of Alexandria, following the advice of Saint Simon the Tanner, performed a mass near it in order to prove to the Caliph that the Gospel is true when it says that "if one has faith like a grain of mustard one can move a mountain".

Mokattam (upper area), above the City of the Dead —Cairo necropolis , in a 1904 aerial view by Eduard Spelterini from a hot air balloon .
The area on election day, 2011.
St. No.8-Mokattam
Mokattam district map, Cairo
An example of the integration of architecture into the landscape c.1887