Detailed view of Egypt's architecture (1850-1950)

Detailed view of Egypt's architecture (1850-1950)

 
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Photographs taken in Cairo, circa 1998 by Cynthia Myntti


 

 
Corner of Aisha Taymuriya and Gandhi streets, previously al-Walda Pasha St., Garden City, built by Georges Parcq


16 Bustan St.





Sakakini Palace, Al-Daher. Inscription below the line reads "Habib Sakakini 1897"


Mascaron on Omar Effendi Department Store, corner of Abd al-Aziz and Rushdi streets


Daira (The Administrative Office) of Ali Jalal Pasha, aka Club des Princes and Club des Quarantes, corner of Imad al-Din and Naguib al-Rihani streets. First constructed in 1897. Antonio Lasciac designed and built the top floor in 1907



Davies Bryan building



41 Sherif St.


Gate of Fuad Sirageddin mansion, corner of Nabatat and Ahmed Pasha streets. Built in 1908 by Carlo Prampolini






Khedivial Buildings, a commercial and residential complex, Imad al-Din St., designed and built in collaboration between Gustave Brocher, Antonio Lasciac, Georges Parcq, 1911



 


Mohamed Shawarbi Pasha building, Ramsis at 26th of July Street, built in 1915 by Habib Ayrout


Ades Building, Imad al-Din at al-Alfi Street

 
Alfred Shammas Mansion


 
Tulumbat St., Garden City. The villa was built for Abicaroun Alexane Pasha

 
5 Al-Kamil Mohamed St., Zamalek. It was the home of Queen Farida of Egypt from 1947 to 1949 after her divorce from King Farouk

 
16 Hassan Sabri St., Zamalek. Architecture by Gaston Zananiri, the original owner




Villa Casdagli, Midan Qasr al-Dubara, built in the early 1900s by Edward Matasek for the Levantine businessman Emanual Casdagli. Casdagli had business ties to the textile industry of Manchester



Gamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin at Ahmed Pasha Street, Garden City


Mohamed Mazhar Street, Greater Cairo Library, Zamalek. Built for the wife and children of Musa Yaqub Cattaui. Edmond Jabes, the French writer, married Musa's granddaughter Arlette in the house


Villa Tawfik, Shagart al-Durr St., Zamalek. Designed by Mario Rossi and Ernesto Verucci Bey

 
31 Beirut St., Heliopolis. Architect: Antoine Backh


Sabil al-Khazindar, Abbassia

 
8 Tulumbar St., Garden City

 
10 Birgas St., Garden City

 


 
5 Mohamed Thakib St., Zamalek


Al-Kamel Mohamed St., Zamalek. Built by the architect G. Galligopoulo in 1933-34 for the Avramoussis family


Mohamed Farid and Banque Mist Streets

 
Nabatat Street at Ahmed Pasha, Garden City

 
18 Ismail Pasha Sirri Street, Munira


Sakakini Palace, Al-Daher




Mohamed Mazhar Street, Greater Cairo Library, Zamalek


Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, al-Munira St., aka Yusif St., Munira


24 Saray al-Gazira


20 Misr wal-Sudan Street, Abbassia




 
3 Mohamed Mazhar St., Zamalek


10 Tulumbat St., Garden City. Original owner: Omar Sirri

 
15 Kamil Sidki St., aka al-Faggala St., al-Daher


5 Sikkat al-Fadl St.

 
3 Midan Gamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin, Garden City

 
Al-Sultan Abu al-Ila St., Bulak

 
11 Al-Kamil Mohamed St., Zamalek. Architect: Guido Gavasi


3 Al-Saraya al-Kubra St., Garden City

 
Bishara al-Kafuri St. off Sayf al-Din al-Mahrani, al-Daher

 
 
Corner of 26th of July, previously Boulak, and Talaat Harb, previously Soliman Pasha, streets. Architect: V. Erlanger. Currently houses Claridge Hotel


Al-Qadi al-Fadil St.


Al-Gumhuriya at Qasr al-Nil St., previously Abdin St., near Midan al-Opera


275 Ramsis St., al-Daher


18 Al-Saraya al-Kubra, Garden City, built by Georges Parcq in 1925


13 Adli St., Magasins Gattegno

 
Talaat Harb St., Egyptian Diplomatic Club

 
Qasr al-Nil at al-Gumhuriya Street

 
50 Qasr al-Nil St. between Midan Mustafa Kamil and Midan al-Opera


Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, al-Munira St., aka Yusif St., Munira. Architect Garo Balian one of the many renovations of the palace

 
Sikkat al-Nasr, off 26th of July St., Boulak


 
Al-Elwi Street


Talaat Harb St., Café Riche building

 
Midan Gamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin
 
 
27 Huda Shaarawi St.


Wakf al-Kharbutli, off al-Daher St.



Gazira House, 4 Omarat al-Yamani, Zamalek. Attributed to architect Ernest Jasper

 
Clot Bey St. Named after the founder of modern Egypt's first medical school, Dr. Antoine Clot. The street, which was built in about the 1870s, is one of modern Cairo's oldest. It runs between Cairo's Railway Station at Bab al-Hadid, called 'Gare Pont Limoun' in French, and Midan Khazindar


Sirgaeddin Palace, corner of Nabatat and Ahmed Pasha Streets

 
9 Zaki St.

 
Corner of Talaat Harb, formerly Soliman Pasha, and al-Busta al-Gadida streets

 
Villa Casdagli, Midan Qasr al-Dubara


 
Egyptian Diplomatic Club, Talaat Harb St.

 
5 Souk Tawfikia St.

 
Abdel Khalek Sarwat St.

 
Corner of Naguib al-Rihani and Imad al-Din streets

 
Corner of Sheikh Rihan and Yusif al-Gindi streets

 
13 Abd al-Hamid Said St., off Ramsis



Midan Tahrir


 
Latin America St. at Rustum Pasha, Garden City



Ahmed Omar St., Bab al-Khalq

 
Sakakini Palace, al-Daher

 
Al-Daher St., al-Daher


13 Abd al-Hamid Said St., off Ramsis


 
Italia-Adriatica Insurance Company, Sherif St. at Mohamed Mazloum Pasha
 
 
Sirageddin mansion, corner of Nabatat and Ahmed Pasha streets

 
14 Adli St.


Corner of Sheikh Rihan and Yusif al-Gindi streets
 

 
 9 Zaki St.
 
 
 
Sirageddin Palace
 
 
Midan Mustafa Kamil. Example of hollow plaster facade 'now crumbling,' C. Myntti, 1999
 
 
5 Ahmed Pasha St., Garden City. Example of hollow plaster bracket in disrepair
 
 
7 Birgas St., Garden City. Example of informal building on roof

 
Midan Mustafa Kamil


 
Miscellaneous photographs

 
Tiring building, Attaba Square, 1997. Credit: Barry Iverson

 
Elevator, Antikhana St., Cairo, 1980. Credit: Barry Iverson

 
 
Prince Said Halim’s Palace. Cairo, 2010, Credit: Xenia Nikolskaya


Credit: Rehab Ragaee



 






Credit: Hossam Manadily

 
Helmia Gedida neighborhood, c. 2021. The house was built in 1911. Credit: Mohamed Noureddin

 
Helmia Gedida neighborhood, 2018. Credit: Rehab Ragaee


50 26th of July St., Boulak, 2018. Credit: Rehab Ragaee




Art Nouveau building located at 6 Ali Pasha Mubarak St., Helmia Gedida neighborhood, Cairo, Egypt, 2022. Photograph credit: Omneya el-Naggar. The mansion was the property of Abdel Salam Pasha Khalil.


Entrance to the Palace of Daira (The Administrative Office) of Ali Jalal Pasha. Designed by the architect Antonio Lasciac, later known as Club des Princes and the Club of Forty, 17 Imad al-Din street, Cairo, 1898. Photo by Atelier Reiser


Downtown Cairo, 2016. Credit: Dalia al-Leissy


The view from Van Leo’s window, Cairo, 2000


Moderia St., Tanta, c. 2021


Court of Justice, Manshieh Sq., Alexandria, 2018. Credit: Rehab Ragaee


4 Talaat Harb St., 2023, built about 1928. Credit: Peter Adel



Old Cairo, 2013. Credit: Wafaa' Samir


Pediment of Sirageddin mansion, 2010

 
Midan Tahrir, Manshieh, Alexandria, 2022. Credit: Sara Adel



Villa Casdagli, Garden City, Cairo, 2010. Credit: Xenia Nikolskaya


Palazzino Aghion, Fuad St., Alexandria, 2022. Credit: Ibrahim Omar



Palazzino Aghion, 2013. Credit: WHM Design


 




Saida Zenab, Cairo, c. 2018-2019. Credit: Rehab Ragaee


Sabil of Umm Mohamed Ali, Ramsis, Cairo, c. 2018. Established in 1867 in memory of Mohamed Ali Jr., the son Mohamed Ali Pasha of Egypt, by his mother Ziba Kadine. Credit: Rehab Ragaee

 
Al-Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood, c. 2018. Credit: Rehab Ragaee
 

El-Kerabiah Alley, Al-Darb al-Ahmar, circa 2023
 

 Bab el-Shaaria, circa 2023. Credit: Khaled Abo Elnaga
 

Helmia Gedida, c. 2018. Credit: Rehab Ragaee




Hilal Building, Osman Bey Mohamed St., Tanta, September 2023


 
Saida Zenab neighborhood, Cairo, c. 2022. Credit: Hisham Naeem
 
 
Kelada Antoun Apartment building by architect Giacomo Alessandro Loria, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Apartment building affiliated to architect G. A. Loria, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Round window corbel before the intersection between Fouad and Safia Zaghloul streets, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Tchacos apartment building in Attarine by architect M. Liberman, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014


An unknown mansion, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Building at 100 Fouad Street by G. A. Loria, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014
 
 
Detail of the cornice of former Villa Rolo, Alexandria, built by architect Max Edrei and engineer Ferdinand J. Debbane, 1926. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Detail of the first floor corbel at no. 84 Fouad Street by architect G. Aghion, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Palace of Count Patrice de Zogheb, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014
 
 
Paraskevas building down Fouad Street, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Union National Bank of Egypt, former Sursock pasha's mansion, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014


Villa Gorra, Alexandria, built by Ferdinand J. Debbane in 1925. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Degiarde Brothers (Ernest, Joseph and Robert) building in Salah al-Din Street, Attarine, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014


Degiarde Bros building, 2020. Credit: Ziad Morsy
 

 66 Nabi Daniel St., Alexandria. Credit: Ali Ramadan
 

Alexandria, c. 2022


Salah al-Din St., Attarine, 2020. Credit: Ziad Morsy

 
Neo-Classic doorway marked by 'Filippo Pini 1880', 97 Fouad Street, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014
 
 
sculptures on the main facade of the German School in Attarine. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Entrance to 59 Sultan Hussein Street, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014

 
Main entrance to no. 8 Ptolemy Street by architect Victor Erlanger, Alexandria. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014


Staircase of the Kelada Antoun apartment building. Credit: May el-Tabbakh, 2014


Entrance of the Kelada Antoun apartment building, 2022. Credit: Sara Adel




Credits: The first part of this report is from Paris along the Nile: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque by Cynthia Myntti, originally published in 1999.

The photographs and their description taken and written by May el-Tabbakh were dedicated to Sandro Manzoni's Cahier AAHA.

Photographers: Barry Iverson, Xenia Nikolskaya, Hossam Manadily, Mohamed Noureddin, Rehab Ragaee, Khaled Abo Elnaga, Omneya el-Naggar, Dalia al-Leissy, Peter Adel, Wafaa' Samir, Sara Adel, Ibrahim Omar, Hisham Naeem.