Abdeen Palace

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. Since then it is one of the presidential palaces. The palace is centered in its eponymous district, administratively part of the Western Area of Cairo, and part of the Khedival Cairo Area of Value to the west of Historic Cairo. Overview Built on the site of a small mansion owned by Abdeen Bey, …