Abdou Pasha station
metro station in Cairo, Egypt
Abdou Pasha station (Arabic: محطة عبده باشا) is a station on the Cairo Metro, part of Phase 1 of Line 3. It is located under El-Abaseya street in Abdou Pasha Square.
History
Abdou Pasha station was inaugurated on 21 February 2012 as part of phase 1 of Line 3.
Overview
The station consists of three floors, with four entrances and elevators to transport passengers from the street level to the station platform and the length of the station is 150 metres (490 ft) and width of 17.5 metres (57 ft) and a depth of 22.5 metres (74 ft) from the station ground.
Like other stations on the network, the station have a contactless fare collection system, as well as an integrated supervision and communication system supplied by the Thales Group.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Abdou Pasha station” as metro station in Cairo, Egypt. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as metro station in Cairo, Egypt. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18349827. Authority coordinates are 30.065, 31.275. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Abdou Pasha station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.