Bibliotheca Alexandrina founded
2002 CE.
Shown on the map at 31.209°, 29.909°.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin, 'Library of Alexandria'; Egyptian Arabic: مكتبة الإسكندريه, romanized: Maktabat al-’Iskandariyya, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mækˈtæb(e)t eskendeˈɾejjæ]) (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity. The complex was officially inaugurated in 2002. At the time of its construction, the reading room was the largest in the world. The library offers shelf space for eight million books, containing books in the Egyptian, classical Arabic, English, and French languages. In 2009, the library received a donation of 500,000 books from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) making the Bibliotheca Alexandrina the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world. The complex also houses a conference center, several specialized libraries, multiple museums and art galleries, a planetarium, and a manuscript restoration laboratory.
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