Fedayeen Square

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Fedayeen Square (Arabic: ميدان الفدائيين mīdān al-fidāʾiyīn) is the main square of The Commons, Nasser City, located within the roundabout at the A1A7 junction. The south entrance to Fedayeen Square Metro Station is located on the north side of the square.

Fedayeen Square is centred on the Sword of Sacrifice, a monument to those who died in the Arab Revolution and earlier Arab wars of liberation, consisting of a limestone statue of three partisans holding erect a giant, three-sided stainless steel sword, mounted atop a large marble pedestal.