Al-Nabi Daniel Street, the Street of Superstitions

 

Al-Nabi Daniel Street is considered one of the most famous and oldest streets in Alexandria and the greatest in history. It extends from Raml Station to Misr Station. It is one of the most important streets of the Bride of the Sea in terms of its historical and archaeological importance.

 

The Civilization Coordination Body, in cooperation with the Alexandria Governorate, begins holding a series of meetings to discuss ways to develop the historic Nabi Daniel Street in the governorate. The following lines provide the most important information about the Prophet Daniel Street.

Why is the street called by that name?

The Prophet Daniel Street was named after one of the prophets of the Children of Israel, according to the Jewish faith, and it dates back to the sixth century BC.

When was Nabi Daniel Street planned?

 

Some historical accounts refer to the planning of the Prophet Daniel’s Street to the period of Alexander the Great’s rule, when he ordered the construction of the city of Alexandria, on the basis of a long street and a cross street representing the backbone of the city, and some believe that the Prophet Daniel Street is the longitudinal street.

What are the most important historical, archaeological and religious monuments on the street?

 

On the street there is a mosque attributed to Sheikh Muhammad Daniel al-Mawsili, one of the sheikhs of the Shafi’i sect who built it in 1790 AD, when he came to Alexandria at the end of the eighth century AH. In 62 AD, with the entry of Christianity to Egypt, it also includes the Jewish Synagogue "Eliyahu Hanabi", which is one of the oldest synagogues dating back to the 19th century, which housed more than 40,000 Jews and a collection of rare Jewish books and manuscripts dating back to the 15th century.

What are the most important cultural manifestations on the street?

 

Al-Nabi Daniel Street is considered a permanent book display, where there are stalls selling used books - lined up on one side - starting with textbooks and foreign books, novels and literary stories in various languages, and selling them at low prices to the city’s residents, sometimes reaching EGP per book.

There are many myths about this street, the most famous of which is that the street (swallows women)

The street swallows the ladies” is a famous sentence applied to the Prophet Daniel Street for an incident that is said to have taken place in the fifties, when a woman passed from the street and fell into a hole and was swallowed by the ground, and nothing was known about it. .

 

Disappearance in the street was not limited to women only. There is a narration confirming that the land was swallowed by a person, a merchant who had a shop on the street and was surprised by the presence of a pit that swallowed a large part of his goods.

that there are narrations that say that Alexander the Great is buried in the Prophet Daniel Street, but he was not found and did not specify his location, pointing to the presence of foreign missions and archaeologists who made sensors in the street for a long time and tried to search for the cemetery, but it was not found and has not yet been discovered.