6th of October Panorama

Statue of Egyptian soldiers crossing the Suez canal

The 6th of October War Panorama is a museum and memorial to the 1973 October war, located in Heliopolis, Cairo.[1] Constructed over an area of 7.5 feddans (around 32,000 square metres),[2] it was inaugurated on 5 October 1989 by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It was built as a cylindrical fort-like building molded in Islamic architectural style[2] with partial assistance from a group of North Korean architects and is run by the Egyptian National Military Museums Department.

  1. ^ "Panorama War of October 1973, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt | Museums & Historical Sites | Egypt Yellow Pages".
  2. ^ a b "October War Panorama". State Information Service. Retrieved 15 December 2013.