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1814 Al-Gawhara Palace at Cairo citadel [22] 1854 Kasr al-Nil (now demolished but the area in downtown Cairo still carries its name) [41] 1863 Gezirah Palace (now a private hotel) [48] 1863 Abdeen Palace - former royal residence, Cairo [22] 1897 Count Gabriel Habib El-Sakakini Pasha Palace at Old Cairo [49] [50] 1898 Anisa Wissa Palace, Fayoum ...
The residential architecture in Historic Cairo covers the area that was built during the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, French occupation and even Mohamed Ali periods. [1] Historic Cairo covers an area of around 523.66 ha on the eastern bank of the Nile river and is surrounded by the modern quarters of Greater Cairo .
When King Fouad I ascended Egypt's throne in 1917, Koubbeh became the official royal residence. During his reign, King Fouad ordered enhancements and extensions to Koubbeh, including a six-meter wall around the 75-acre (300,000 m 2 ), a new gate and an external garden.
Building collapses are common in Cairo, home to some 20 million people, and the shortage of affordable housing is so acute that 1.5 to 2 million are believed to live in tombs in an area known as ...
Picture of a street in Garden City. Garden City (Arabic: جاردن سيتي, Egyptian Arabic: جاردن سيتى) is an early-20th-century real estate development loosely based on the English garden city movement, and is today a mixed residential and administrative quarter in qism Qasr al-Nil in the West District of Cairo, Egypt. [1]
This area is a roughly 100-mile drive northeast from Cairo. One of the artifacts found at the 3,400-year-old rest house. Photos show what’s left of the 3,400-year-old rest house.
Modern self-built homes, and older rural houses near Ard El Liwa, Giza, with the Giza Pyramids in the background. Even though mathematically more housing than needed is produced in Egypt resulting in millions of vacant homes, [1] large portions of its residents live in inadequate housing that may lack secure tenure, safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, are crowded or are prone to ...
While the "City of the Dead" is a designation frequently used in English, the Arabic name is "al-Qarafa" (Arabic: القرافة, romanized: al-Qarafa).The name is a toponym said to derive from the Banu Qarafa ibn Ghusn ibn Wali clan, a Yemeni clan descended from the Banu Ma'afir tribe, which once had a plot of land in the city of Fustat (the predecessor of Cairo).