Currently being used as dormitory for women (we're told)
Western gate to sit-in
Heavy, heavy security here. Also where they've build cement barricades (just under a meter high) behind several walls of sandbags. As with all gates, a checkpoint where one is ID'd, frisked and bags are searched.
Children's play area/fun park
Built shortly before Eid, this area, with a small swimming pool, is just outside the barricaded entrance.
Military Financial Affairs Department
Surrounded by tents.
North gate to sit-in
Again, walls of sandbags. Here, there are a row of tents and shacks built along El-Tayran St. that extend well beyond the original parameters of the vigil.
Mosque hospital
This has been turned into the sit-in hospital - no longer open to the public. It's reasonably well-equipped.
Mosque
Where most TV stations get their live shots. Also a place where women go to sleep.
Sit-in media centre
Where regular press conferences are held and media are (generally) welcome to hang out or seek interviews with sit-in organisers and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This video was aired on August, 14
Tiba Mall
Closed for the most part, but the supermarket therein has been periodically open. This mall was entirely outside the vigil area to start with but has since been engulfed.
Eastern gate to sit-in
An area of heavy fortification, with four sandbag walls (at last count) and, as with other Nasr Rd. entrance, steel shields (with slots at eye level) placed around them. Here, as with most gates, men in hard hats, carrying batons, stand at the ready with bags of rocks at their feet.
Limit of the sit-in
Military intelligence buildings
All these buildings at this corner are military facilities. Some have sandbags on their rooftops.
Military intelligence building
Extention of the sit-in
In recent weeks, tents and solid structures - wooden sheds, one approximately 20m long, have popped up here. Everything is covered in tarps so there's no open view of what's inside.
This video was aired on July, 22
Pre-expansion gate
This is where those coming in used to be searched and ID'd a few weeks ago, so that gives you an idea of how much the sit-in has expanded.
Main stage
This is where people gather almost around the clock to hear speakers, pray and chant. There are speakers all over the sit-in area that broadcast whatever is happening here. There are a couple of smaller stages (one near the original eastern entrance), but this is the main attraction.
Admistrative Al-Azhar University Building
Houses a series of administrative offices. The university has a number of buildings in the area, outside the square.
Extention of sit-in
Lots of tents and kiosks packed in this little area, which was empty a few weeks ago.
Military property
This houses facilities for different military units.
Military sports club
Extention of sit-in
There are tents and sheds popping up this far down Tayaran St.
Southern gate of sit-in
This is heavily guarded, with several sandbag walls.
Line 9
Military roadblock
Military vehicles have been here for weeks.
Extention of sit-in
Although the sandbag walls are on Nasr Street,where it intersects with Yusef Abbas, there are structures built far down the street, close to the Sadat stand. This was the site of the July 27 clash that left scores dead.
