Agouza (Giza)

 draw only border, city district

 Upload a photo

Agouza is a district of Giza on the western bank of the Nile

There are two contesting stories explaining the origin of Agouza's name.
The first is that in the 1940s and 1950s, an old woman (Agouza in Arabic) sat alongside the Corniche and sold coffee to cars passing by. When people wanted to meet up, they would say "I'm at the Agouza," and the name just stuck. The story is unverified however.
The second, perhaps more likely story, is that the name Agouza refers to Nazly Hanem, the wife of Sherif Pacha who was Prime Minister at the time of Mohamed Ali in the 1800s. At the age of 80 she decided to build a mosque to fulfill her husband’s wish after his death. Given her old age people referred to the mosque as Al Agouza which later became the name of the whole district.