Foustat Traditional Crafts Center — Attraction in Cairo

Absolutely love this place. If you love handcraft and art in general you need to see this place. There are artisans workshops for every traditional crafts who will be more than happy to show you how's its done. These are real working shops, not just for show. It is also a craft school (upstairs) where the students works on various projects for a 2 years program. It's extremely impressive and everyone were super friendly. We spent hours there and seriously thinking of taking classes too! Btw i disagree with other reviews about the bathroom, it's clean. I do agree that it has so much more potential. Tho they are still building parts of it when we visited. Hope it...

This place has great potential. In fact, infinite potential! This is what earns it a rating of 4 stars, alongside the devotion of its staff of craftsmen, who are working wholeheartedly to maintain traditional craftsmanship alive, albeit underpaid given that it's a public (governmental) facility. You time travel to ancient and old times in an instant, watching tentmaking, copper smithing, silversmiths at work, Arabic calligraphers, etc. One star less because of the neglected premises and...

بوابة استراتيجية لعودة جماليات الماضي ...🤩🤩🤩 يقع «مركز الحرف التقليدية» في مدينة الفسطاط التي أسسها عمرو بن العاص،علي مساحة 2400 متر مربع، ويعد أحد المشروعات المهمة، التي استهدفت إحياء أمجاد ماضٍ عريق بحاضر مشرق، بإتاحة الفرصة أمام الفنانين والحرفيين لممارسة إبداعاتهم وتأكيد القيمة الفنية في هذا المضمار ، وقد بدء المركز الذى شيده شيخ الخزافين سعيد الصدر 1958 والذى كان عبارة عن أتيلية يضم فرنا واحدا، ثم قام المعماري الفذ جمال عامر عام 1996 بتصميم المبنى الجديد مستلهما عمارة استاذه حسن فتحى الذى تعد أفكارة فلسفة خاصة للبناء من البيئة وللبيئة ، حيث شيد مركز الحرف التقليدية ليكون مركزا فى سماء الفسطاط أول عاصمة لمصر الإسلامية. A strategic portal for the return of the aesthetics of the past🤩🤩 The "Traditional Crafts Center" is located in the city of Fustat, which was founded by Amr Ibn Al-Aas, on an area of 2,400 square meters. It is considered one of the important projects aimed at reviving the glories of a great past with a bright present, by providing the opportunity for artists and craftsmen to practice their creativity and confirm the artistic value in this field. The center, which was built by the Potters Sheikh Saeed al-Sadr, began in 1958, which was an atelier that included one furnace, then in 1996 the brilliant architect Jamal Amer designed the new building, inspired by the architecture of his teacher, Hassan Fathy, who considers the ideas of a special philosophy of building from the environment and for the environment. A center in the sky of Fustat, the first capital of...