Back قصر عابدين Arabic قصر عابدين ARZ Abdeen-Palast German Palaco Abdeen Esperanto Palacio de Abdín Spanish Abdin jauregia Basque کاخ عابدین Persian Abadainin palatsi Finnish Palais d'Abedin French ארמון עאבדין HE
| 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 the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952.[1] Since then it has been 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.
- ^ 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.