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Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [1]
It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th century until the construction of Abdeen Palace in the 19th century. Its location on a promontory of the Mokattam hills near the center of Cairo commands a strategic position overlooking the city and dominating its skyline.
870 AD Ahmad ibn Tulun Palace at al-Qatta'i in Old Cairo. [9] 12th century Fatimid Great Palaces (the Great Eastern Palace and the Western Palace) around the Bayn al-Qasrayn area in Historic Cairo. [10] [11] 12th century Cairo Citadel, an Ayyubid dynasty palace [12] 13th century Sultan al-Salih palace in Rhoda Island in Nile in Cairo. [13] [14]
Abdeen Palace Egypt: Cairo: 108,000 square metres (1,162,502 sq ft) The construction of the palace begin in 1863 and it was officially opened in 1874. In 1921 Sultan Fuad I added the gardens. The total size of the palace complex is 192,000 square metres (2,070,000 sq ft). Serves as the official workplace of the President of Egypt. Abdeen Palace: 13
It is one of the streets in the Sayyidah Zainab, and the reason for the name of this street is because there was a pond called Al-Birka Al-Nasiriya by Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad bin Qalawun, which was surrounded by small houses, but with the construction of Abdeen Palace and the beginning of Khedive Ismail's reign, several state officials lived ...
Qasr El Nil Street extends (east to west): from the Abdeen Palace at Abdeen Square, passes a vibrant business district, Bab El-Lauq Market, and the American University in Cairo—Downtown Campus, is joined by Talaat Harb Street and passes through Tahrir Square with The Mogamma building and Egyptian Antiquities Museum, and then crosses the Nile River on the Qasr El Nil Bridge, to end on Gezira ...
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The Qubbah Palace was built in the mid 19th century by a royal and bought in 1866 by Khedive Ismail as a suburban retreat from his official residence, Abdeen Palace, in central Cairo. [ 2 ] In the early 20th century, a daughter of the khedive built the Tahra Palace nearby. [ 3 ]