It is always seen in Cairo, becoming one of its true modern landmarks in Nasr City.
It commemorates the fallen heroes of Egyptian soldiers and officers in the October 1973/Yom Kippur War.
The Memorial of the Unknown Soldier in Nasr City, Cairo Photographed by iPhone |
It is our fourth Pyramid, the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Nasr City.
It witnessed the assassination of President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat on the 6 October 1981, eight years after the war and six years after the inauguration of the Memorial in 1975.
Although he wished to be buried at Wadi Al-Raha near Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa), Sadat was buried at Cairo’s Unknown Soldier Memorial, which he ordered to be built in 1974.
El-Sadat's funeral in October 1981 at the Uknonwn Solider Memorial |
Egyptian artist and professor Sami Rafi designed the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier as a modern pyramid with the first names of Egyptian men engraved on its sides.
Speaking about the memorial is the only thing I think about writing on the anniversary of the 6 October 1973 War in Egypt as usual not in a celebratory way.
I uploaded a YouTube Short dedicated to the Egyptian soldiers but could not share it publicly or widely with that ongoing genocide happening in Gaz and extending to Lebanon.
The Memorial of Unknown Soldier in Cairo made me think about the Memorial of Unknown Soldier in Gaza.