RPR-EGY-H002 · EGYPT

Mena House — Khedivial Hunting Lodge

Local/original name field under source audit

Royal Hunting Lodge / Later Hotel · Historic hotel with khedivial lodge origin; surviving-fabric audit required

Registry Record

RPR-EGY-H002 · Muhammad Ali Dynasty · Khedive Ismail

Type: Royal Hunting Lodge / Later Hotel
Date: 1869 lodge; sold 1883; later hotel
Status: Historic hotel with khedivial lodge origin; surviving-fabric audit required
Royal provenance: Verified royal lodge origin

Hospitality audit: The khedivial lodge origin is retained, while the exact amount of original 1869 fabric surviving within the present hotel remains an open architectural audit.

Why It Belongs in the Registry

This page records a verified or explicitly qualified palace-related site within Egypt's royal and dynastic landscape. Royal Palaces separates the existence of the building or complex from stronger claims about exact occupancy, chronology or surviving fabric.

People

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Sources & Further Reading

Geography

Geographic Path: Egypt → Giza Governorate → Giza → Giza Plateau / Pyramids

Local Place: Pyramids / Giza

Estate / Micro-location: Khedivial hunting lodge / Mena House

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Rulers, Residents & Use by Reign

PeriodRulerRelationshipNotes
1863–1879Khedive Ismailkhedival residence / patronPart of Ismail's palace network.