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The governorate embraces several Islamic shrines, churches, and

old monasteries including mosques of the Sufi Seedy Sheble el-

Aswad in Shohada city, Seedy Khamees bin Shebeen al-Koum,

and el-Abbasy Mosque. Further, it hosts churches of Mary Gergis

and Virgin Mary in Shebeen el-Koum and Donshway Museum

commemorating Donshway incident on portraits and in surreal

and plastic statues, as well as late president Sadat's Museum, hero

of war and peace, in Meet Abu el-Koum, which is his birthplace.

Location:

Menofia lies in the South of the middle Delta region between

Rosetta and Damietta branches. It is bordered by Gharbia in the

North, by Giza in the South West, by Qaliubiya in the South East,

and by el-Beheira governorate in the West. It takes the triangle

shape, where its head in the South, and its base in the North.

The Governorate's national day:

13th June on the occasion of resisting the English occupation in

Denshway in 1906.

Total area: 2499.00 Km2.

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