Photo by Bing Maps and OSM data

I heard about this place for an article and reading the blog of photographer Kaupo Kikkas, he details some peculiarities:

… How come that there are no cinemas in the middle of the desert?

He flew back to Paris and arranged some money. After that he went to Cairo to buy original old seats and projection equipment from an old cinema theatre. Then came back to Sinai, arranged generator for electricity a monsterous tractor to pull up the screen that was like a gigantic sail. And now everything was more or less ready for the premier.

Only detail he forgot was that this nice desert happens to be in Egypt. Country where local authorities are not too happy about such enthusiasm and spirit, specially if it comes from a crazy frenchmen…

At the premier evening everything went “accidentally” wrong, their electricity generator was sabotaged and no movies were ever screened at the End of the World Cinema. …

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

The Map

Is located on the outskirts (northwest) of city “Sharm el-Sheikh” on South Sinai Governorate, Egypt.

I used tags: amenity=cinema + tourism=atraction + abandoned=yes + start_date=~2000

OSM map -> http://bit.ly/1eBbwqe