Aswan Islamic Cemetery

The Aswan Islamic Cemetery is an important funerary landscape with monuments dating to the early Islamic centuries, including a notable group of domed tombs associated with the Fatimid period. It is therefore far older than the nineteenth-century date previously given in this record. The cemetery is valuable for the study of Islamic funerary architecture and the long history of Muslim Aswan. Visitor planning: Plan around Aswan heat, Nile crossings and boat transfers where relevant. Aswan Islamic Cemetery is recorded in the Aswan City area of Aswan. This attraction forms part of Aswan Historic & Archaeological Landscape. Parent-site context: Discover Aswan Historic & Archaeological Landscape, a notable heritage or visitor site in Aswan City, Aswan Governorate. Discover Aswan Historic & Archaeological Landscape, a notable heritage or visitor site in Aswan City, Aswan Governorate. Use this page as an umbrella for Aswan city and its surrounding archaeological landscape rather than as a single attraction. Individual temples, museums, islands, monuments and excursions have their own access rules, tickets and opening schedules, so itinerary decisions should be made from the child attraction records rather than from this destination record alone. Visitor planning: Umbrella destination record; not a single ticketed attraction. Aswan Historic & Archaeological Landscape is recorded in the Aswan City area of Aswan. The location record includes the map que Plan roughly 60 to 120 minutes for the visit. The recorded recommended transport mode is taxi or ride hail.