Mohandiseen

Mohandessin المهندسين
Planned community
Original master plan of Mohandessin in 1948, then known as Madinat al-Awqaf
Mohandessin Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 30°03′11″N 31°12′07″E / 30.05306°N 31.20194°E / 30.05306; 31.20194
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Giza Governorate
Time zone	UTC+2 (EST)

Mohandiseen (Arabic: المهندسين Al-Mohandisīn  pronounced [almohændɪˈsiːn], "The Engineers") is a major 1940s sub-division project originally named Madinat al-Awqaf,^[1] and made up most of the Wasat (middle) district in the city of Giza, before being divided in 1997 into the districts of Agouza (covers most of the district) and Dokki (Covers half of the district). Al-Mohandessin in Arabic literally means the engineers, after one of the sub-districts that was sold to the Engineers' Syndicate cooperative, and becoming the colloquial name for most of the Agouza side.