Someone burnt down the original library. This is version 2.0 "Alexandria". This is a magnetic nano in the Mutter Gottes Neighborhood. You do not have to trample the vegetation to access this. There is parking nearby. Due to the population growth in the 1830's and 1840's, Covington grew beyond its original 5 blocks size. Main Street was added to the West, and 12th Street to the South. These additions created the German-speaking neighborhoods now known as Mutter Gottes and Mainstrasse Historic Districts. A public market was established at Main and 6th Street in the center of the wide street and second, and more lasting, public market sprang up at Madison Avenue and Pike Street in 1853. The Mutter Gottes Kirche (Mother of God Church) was built in 1871. Another landmark church, the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, began construction in 1894 and was completed in 1915. The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. It was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts. It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. With collections of works, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and gardens, the library was part of a larger research institution called the Musaeum of Alexandria, where many of the most famous thinkers of the ancient world studied. The library was created by Ptolemy I Soter, who was a Macedonian general and the successor of Alexander the Great. Most of the books were kept as papyrus scrolls, and though it is unknown how many such scrolls were housed at any given time, their combined value was incalculable. The library is famous for having been burned resulting in the loss of many scrolls and books, and has become a symbol of the destruction of cultural knowledge. A few sources differ on who is responsible for the destruction and when it occurred. Although there is a mythology of the burning of the Library at Alexandria, the library may have suffered several fires or acts of destruction over many years. Possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria include a fire set by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, an attack by Aurelian in the A.D. 270s, and the decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus in A.D. 391. After the main library was fully destroyed, ancient scholars used a "daughter library" in a temple known as the Serapeum, located in another part of the city. According to Socrates of Constantinople, Coptic Pope Theophilus destroyed the Serapeum in A.D. 391.