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Coordinates: 30 ° 47 ' N , 31 ° 0' E
Tanta , Arabic طنطا, DMG Ṭanṭā , is a city in the Nile Delta in Egypt .
Tanta is the capital of al-Gharbiyya Governorate , has about 445,000 inhabitants, is an important railway junction and is home to one of the larger Egyptian universities. The mausoleum of the mystic Ahmad al-Badawi (around 1200–1276), the founder of the Tariqa Badawiyya , the largest Sufi order in Egypt, is located in Tanta.
As there are hardly any antiquities to be found in the floodplain of the delta, the sights are limited to the Islamic period. The Great Mosque and the named tomb of the most famous Egyptian saint in the center of the city come from this. The monumental domed building ( qubba ) with slender minarets received its current form in the 19th century. The cenotaph of the saint (Arabic: tābūt ) is covered with a red cloth (kiswa) and secured by a bronze grille (maqṣūra) . The tomb is the destination of the largest annual pilgrimage (mausim, maulid) in Egypt, which attracts up to three million pilgrims.
There is an SOS Children's Village in Tanta .
sons and daughters of the town
- Muhammad Bayyumi (1894–1963), film director, producer, cameraman and actor
- Sayed Nosseir (1905–1977), world class weightlifter
- Atif Muhammad Nagib Sidqi (1930–2005), Egyptian politician and Prime Minister
- Atif Abaid (1932–2014), former Prime Minister (1999–2004)
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid (1943-2010), liberal theologian
- Khairy Beshara (born 1947), director
- Tahani al-Gebali (* 1950), Vice President of the Egyptian Constitutional Court
- Anba Epiphanius (1954–2018), Coptic Orthodox Bishop and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Makarios
- Bassem Amin (* 1988), chess grandmaster
