Al-Azhar Park

Al-Azhar Park is a public park located in Cairo, Egypt. Among several honors, this park is listed as one of the World's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces . The park was created by the Historic Cities Support Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture , an entity of the Aga Khan Development Network . The park, developed at a cost in excess of USD $30 million, was a gift to Cairo from Aga Khan IV: a descendant of the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who founded the city of Cairo in the year 969.