Abdeen Palace
| Abdeen Palace | |
|---|---|
 The main facade of the Palace. | |
  Location within Egypt | |
| General information | |
| Town or city | Abdin Square Cairo |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Coordinates | 30°02′30″N 31°14′54″E / 30.04167°N 31.24833°E |
| Construction started | 1863 |
| Cost | £E2,700,000 |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 44 feddans |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | French architect Rousseau |
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (
Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as Egypt's seat of government from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952.[1] Since then it is one of the presidential palaces.[1] The palace is centered in its eponymous district, administratively part of the Western Area of Cairo,[2] and part of the Khedival Cairo Area of Value[3] to the west of Historic Cairo
.
Overview
Built on the site of a small mansion owned by
Ismail Pasha, to become Egypt's official government headquarters instead of the Citadel of Cairo (which had been the center of Egyptian government since the Middle Ages
), this palace was used as well for official events and ceremonies.
The construction started in 1863Fuad I on an area of 20 feddans. The cost of building the palace reached £E700,000 in addition to £E2 million for its furnishing. Between four palaces, King Fuad spent more than 18 million French francs with just one Parisian furniture manufacturer Linke & Cie.[6] More money was also spent on the palace's alteration, preservation and maintenance by consecutive rulers. The palace has 500 rooms.[7]
Museum
The palace today is a museum, located in the
firman, or decree, which established the rule of Muhammad Ali and his family, and a certificate for the Order of the Iron Crown, from the short-lived South American Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
.
See also
- Abdeen Palace Incident of 1942
References
- ^ a b "Abdeen Palace Museum". Sis.gov.eg. 2022-06-11. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ "Western Area". www.cairo.gov.eg. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ Khedival Cairo protection boundaries (PDF) (in Arabic). Cairo: National Organistation for Urban Harmony. 2022.
- ^ a b "Abdeen museums to open soon. - Free Online Library".
- ^ "Interview with Mohamed Mokhtar, curator at the Abdeen Palace Museum, Cairo, Egypt". 11 January 2021.
- ^ Christopher Payne, ‘François Linke 1855-1946, The Belle Époque of French Furniture’, Antique Collector’s Club 2003, p.269
- ^ a b "Cairo Museums details". بوابة محافظة القاهرة. March 23, 2022. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
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