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later hotel towers are additions", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "Authentic Royal Palace in active hotel complex", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-014" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-015", "SRC-EGY-016" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Cairo Governorate — Zamalek District; Marriott — Family History" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-H002", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Mena House — Khedivial Hunting Lodge", "local_name": "", "transliteration": "", "local_name_status": "No secure local/original-name form stored yet; do not infer one.", "place": "Giza", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail", "palace_type": "Royal Hunting Lodge / Later Hotel", "dates": "1869 lodge; sold 1883; later hotel", "survival_or_status": "Historic hotel with khedivial lodge origin; surviving-fabric audit required", "royal_provenance": "Verified royal lodge origin", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "Hotel", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "Royal lodge converted to hotel — exact original fabric to audit", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-058" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED ROYAL ORIGIN / FABRIC AUDIT OPEN", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Marriott historical material; GeoMEast historical venue account" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M010", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Zaafaran Palace", "local_name": "قصر الزعفران", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Zaʿfarān", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Abbassia, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail / Khoshyar Hanim", "palace_type": "Royal Palace / Dynastic Residence", "dates": "1864 or c.1870 in official Cairo sources — date conflict retained", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — Ain Shams University administration", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "Ain Shams University administrative headquarters", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-014", "RPP-EGY-021" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-017" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Cairo Governorate — Al-Zaafaran Palace" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-A009", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Hyksos Palace District at Avaris", "local_name": "", "transliteration": "", "local_name_status": "No secure local/original-name form stored yet; do not infer one.", "place": "Tell el-Dabʿa / Ezbet Helmi, Sharqia", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Second Intermediate Period / Fifteenth Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Hyksos rulers", "palace_type": "Royal Palace District / Archaeological", "dates": "Late Hyksos Period, before c.1530 BCE", "survival_or_status": "Archaeological remains", "royal_provenance": "Verified palace district at Hyksos capital", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-029", "SRC-EGY-030" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Austrian Archaeological Institute / Austrian Academy of Sciences — Tell el-Dabʿa / Avaris; FWF palatial research" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-A010", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Tuthmosid Palace Precinct at Avaris / Perunefer", "local_name": "", "transliteration": "", "local_name_status": "No secure local/original-name form stored yet; do not infer one.", "place": "Ezbet Helmi near Tell el-Dabʿa", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Early Eighteenth Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Tuthmosid kings, probably Thutmose III period", "palace_type": "Royal Palace Precinct / Harbour Residence", "dates": "c.1500–1400 BCE", "survival_or_status": "Archaeological remains", "royal_provenance": "Verified palace precinct", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-029", "SRC-EGY-030" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "FWF — Thutmoside Palace Precinct in Avaris; TU Wien / Austrian Academy of Sciences" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-A011", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Palace of Amenemhat III at Tell Basta", "local_name": "", "transliteration": "", "local_name_status": "No secure local/original-name form stored yet; do not infer one.", "place": "Tell Basta / Bubastis, Sharqia", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Middle Kingdom / Twelfth Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Amenemhat III", "palace_type": "Royal Palace / Archaeological", "dates": "19th century BCE", "survival_or_status": "Archaeological remains", "royal_provenance": "Verified excavation of a colossal palace", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-031" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED SITE / ROYAL OCCUPANCY INTERPRETATION", "audit_notes": [ "Official Ministry material identifies a large palace complex and states it may have been Amenemhat III’s residence when in Per-Bastet or a high administrative residence; royal occupancy is therefore retained with an explicit caveat." ], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Tell Basta" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M011", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Dar al-Imara of Ahmad ibn Tulun at al-Qata’i", "local_name": "دار الإمارة", "transliteration": "Dār al-Imāra", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "al-Qata’i, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Tulunid Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Ahmad ibn Tulun", "palace_type": "Ruler’s Palace / Lost Palace", "dates": "c.870s CE; al-Qata’i destroyed 905", "survival_or_status": "Lost; site incorporated into later Cairo", "royal_provenance": "Historically attested palace adjoining Ibn Tulun Mosque", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-047" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-032" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Archnet — Jami ibn Tulun; Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Tulunid Dynasty" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M012", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Al-Gawhara Palace", "local_name": "قصر الجوهرة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Jawhara", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo Citadel", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Muhammad Ali Pasha", "palace_type": "Royal Palace / Guest and Governor Residence", "dates": "1814", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — museum", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-012" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-033" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Cairo Governorate — Salah El-Din’s Citadel; Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Cairo Citadel" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M013", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Farouk’s Corner, Helwan", "local_name": "ركن فاروق", "transliteration": "Rukn Fārūq", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Helwan, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Kingdom of Egypt / Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "King Farouk I", "palace_type": "Royal Rest House / Retreat", "dates": "1942", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — Helwan Corner Museum", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-019" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-034" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Helwan Corner Museum" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M014", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Harem Palace at Cairo Citadel", "local_name": "قصر الحرم", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Ḥaram", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo Citadel", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Muhammad Ali Pasha and royal household", "palace_type": "Royal Family / Harem Palace within Citadel", "dates": "1826–1827 (official sources differ by one year)", "survival_or_status": "Surviving / National Military Museum", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-012" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-035" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "CultNat / State Information Service / Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P006", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Prince Said Halim Palace", "local_name": "قصر الأمير سعيد حليم", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīr Saʿīd Ḥalīm", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Champollion Street, Downtown Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Prince Said Halim Pasha", "palace_type": "Non-Sovereign Royal / Princely Palace", "dates": "Commissioned 1896; built c.1896–1899", "survival_or_status": "Surviving historic monument; former school", "royal_provenance": "Verified dynastic commission; never occupied by commissioner", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-027", "RPP-EGY-032" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-036" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "architect": "Antonio Lasciac", "source": "IRD Éditions / Italian archival research" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P007", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace", "local_name": "قصر الأمير عمرو إبراهيم", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīr ʿAmr Ibrāhīm", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Zamalek, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Prince Amr Ibrahim", "palace_type": "Non-Sovereign Royal / Princely Residence", "dates": "Early 1920s; commonly dated 1921", "survival_or_status": "Surviving / Gezira Art Center and Museum of Islamic Ceramics", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-028", "RPP-EGY-034" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-037", "SRC-EGY-038" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "Egyptian Fine Arts Sector / Cairo Governorate" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P008", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Palace of Princess Nimetallah Kamal al-Din", "local_name": "قصر الأميرة نعمت الله كمال الدين", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīra Niʿmat Allāh Kamāl al-Dīn", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Tahrir / Qasr al-Dubara area, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Princess Nimetallah Tawfiq; later Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein", "palace_type": "Non-Sovereign Royal / Princely Palace", "dates": "c.1900–1906; source chronology differs", "survival_or_status": "Surviving / Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs complex", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-029", "RPP-EGY-030", "RPP-EGY-032" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-039", "SRC-EGY-040" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "architect": "Antonio Lasciac", "source": "Italian Cultural Institute Cairo / RAWI Publishing" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P009", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Sultana Malak Palace / Sultan Hussein Kamel Palace", "local_name": "قصر السلطانة ملك", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Sulṭāna Malak", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Heliopolis, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Hussein Kamel; Sultana Malak", "palace_type": "Royal / Consort Palace", "dates": "Designed 1908; occupied before and after Hussein Kamel became Sultan in 1914", "survival_or_status": "Surviving / adaptive reuse", "royal_provenance": "Verified royal residence", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-017", "RPP-EGY-031", "RPP-EGY-033" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-041" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "architect": "Alexandre Marcel", "source": "Al-Ahram Weekly / heritage records" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P010", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Prince Omar Toussoun Palace, Shubra", "local_name": "قصر عمر باشا طوسون", "transliteration": "Qaṣr ʿUmar Bāshā Ṭūsūn", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Shubra / Rod El Farag, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Prince Omar Toussoun", "palace_type": "Princely / Dynastic Residence", "dates": "1886 (registered heritage record)", "survival_or_status": "Surviving but heavily altered / damaged", "royal_provenance": "Verified dynastic residence", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-035" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-045" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "CULTNAT records the house/palace of Omar Pasha Toussoun at Shubra as constructed in 1303 AH / 1886 CE. Later secondary sources often give 1892; retain the official heritage date as canonical and record the discrepancy." } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P011", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Al-Qasr Al-Aly Palace", "local_name": "القصر العالي", "transliteration": "al-Qaṣr al-ʿĀlī", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo — historic al-Munira / Garden City royal domain", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Ibrahim Pasha; later Khedive Ismail; Khoshyar Hanim (Walda Pasha)", "palace_type": "Dynastic Palace / Palace of the Queen Mother", "dates": "Completed c.1820; first Majlis al-Mashura held there in 1829", "survival_or_status": "Lost / fragmentary architectural elements survive outside the original site", "royal_provenance": "Verified by official ruler biography", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-044", "SRC-EGY-060", "SRC-EGY-062" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "Also known in later use as the Palace of Walda Pasha. Built by Ibrahim Pasha, later associated with Ismail and gifted to his mother Khoshyar Hanim. It served as a major ceremonial centre during the 1873 dynastic weddings." } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P012", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "El-Maghara Palace", "local_name": "قصر المغارة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Maghāra", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo — exact historic site under audit", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Ibrahim Pasha", "palace_type": "Princely / Ruling-Family Palace", "dates": "Before 1848; exact construction chronology unresolved", "survival_or_status": "Lost / exact surviving fabric unresolved", "royal_provenance": "Verified by official ruler biography", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-044" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "Presidency of Egypt lists El-Maghara Palace among Ibrahim Pasha’s Cairo palaces. Further archival work is required before assigning precise dates or a current-site identification." } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P013", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Palais Toussoun, Zamalek", "local_name": "قصر طوسون بالزمالك", "transliteration": "Qaṣr Ṭūsūn bi-l-Zamālik", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Zamalek, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Princess Bahiga Hassan / Prince Omar Toussoun household", "palace_type": "Dynastic Family Residence — acquired private villa", "dates": "Acquired by Princess Bahiga Hassan c.1922–1923", "survival_or_status": "Surviving / later state use", "royal_provenance": "Verified dynastic household residence; title-chain documented in specialist secondary source", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-035", "RPP-EGY-036" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-046", "SRC-EGY-078" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "Originally Villa Lyons. The property belonged to Princess Bahiga Hassan and served the Toussoun family during Cairo court seasons; this is a later-acquired royal-family residence, not a purpose-built sovereign palace." } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M015", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Musafirkhana Palace", "local_name": "قصر المسافرخانة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Musāfir Khāna", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "al-Jamaliyya, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Late Ottoman / Muhammad Ali transition", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Acquired by Muhammad Ali Pasha; used by his immediate descendants", "palace_type": "Acquired Dynastic Guest Palace", "dates": "Built 1779–1788; acquired in early 19th century; destroyed 1998", "survival_or_status": "Destroyed by fire, 1998", "royal_provenance": "Verified after acquisition", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-012", "RPP-EGY-014" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-050", "SRC-EGY-051" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-050", "SRC-EGY-051" ] } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P014", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Qasr al-Nil Palace", "local_name": "قصر النيل", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Nīl", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo, Nile east bank / present Tahrir area", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Muhammad Ali family; Princess Nazli Hanem; Sa’id Pasha", "palace_type": "Dynastic Palace / Ruling Residence with later military conversion", "dates": "Initial palace c.1805; rebuilt/expanded under Sa’id Pasha after 1854; military conversion under Ismail; later lost", "survival_or_status": "Lost / demolished and absorbed into military barracks", "royal_provenance": "Verified through historical and academic secondary sources", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Dynastic residence for Nazli Hanem", "Rebuilt palace / residence under Sa’id Pasha", "Military school and barracks complex", "Lost; name survives in Cairo geography" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-037", "RPP-EGY-038" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-054", "SRC-EGY-055", "SRC-EGY-060", "SRC-EGY-063" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "La fabrique du Caire moderne; Al-Ahram Hebdo; Rawi / scholarly urban-history references" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P015", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Ismailia Palace", "local_name": "قصر الإسماعيلية", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Ismāʿīliyya", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo, Ismailia / present Tahrir Square area", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail / Crown Prince and later Khedive Tewfik", "palace_type": "Khedivial / Dynastic Residence", "dates": "c.1871; documented as Prince Tewfik’s residence in 1879; khedivial residence in early 20th century; demolished in phases from 1909 into the 1930s", "survival_or_status": "Lost / demolished in phases in the 20th century", "royal_provenance": "Verified", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Dynastic / khedivial residence", "Residence of Crown Prince Tewfik before accession", "Khedivial residence", "Demolished; site absorbed into modern Tahrir area" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-014", "RPP-EGY-015" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-056", "SRC-EGY-057", "SRC-EGY-060", "SRC-EGY-064" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "U.S. Office of the Historian FRUS 1879; Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911; Rawi urban history" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P016", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Qasr al-Dubara Palace", "local_name": "قصر الدوبارة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Dūbāra", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo — Nilefront / present Garden City–Simon Bolivar Square area", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Prince Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha; Münire Sultan; Princess Amina Ilhami", "palace_type": "Dynastic / Royal-Family Palace", "dates": "First half of the 19th century; dynastic residence through the later 19th century; British Agency/Residency after 1882; demolished in the 20th century", "survival_or_status": "Lost / demolished and redeveloped in the mid-20th century", "royal_provenance": "Verified through historical secondary and urban-history sources", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Princely / dynastic residence associated with Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha", "Residence of Münire Sultan and later Princess Amina Ilhami", "Winter residence and gathering place for women of the Muhammad Ali family", "British Agency / Residency after the British occupation", "Lost; site redeveloped, while the name survives in the district, church and historical memory" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-039", "RPP-EGY-040", "RPP-EGY-041" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-060", "SRC-EGY-061" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "Not to be confused with the later Villa Casdagli or other buildings in the Qasr al-Dubara district. Exact early construction chronology remains under audit.", "source": "Al-Shorouk historical feature on Ibrahim Ilhami Palace / Qasr al-Dubara; IRD Éditions, Garden City urban history; Egyptian historical press" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P017", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Al-Hilmiya Palace", "local_name": "قصر الحلمية", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Ḥilmiyya", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Al-Hilmiya, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Abbas I Hilmi; later Princess Amina Ilhami", "palace_type": "Sovereign Palace / Dynastic Estate", "dates": "Completed 1851; gardens taken for urban development in 1890; palace demolished 1903", "survival_or_status": "Lost — demolished 1903; gardens urbanized", "royal_provenance": "Verified by architectural and urban-history research", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Sovereign palace and vast garden estate of Abbas I", "Inherited within the Abbas I / Ibrahim Ilhami branch; later associated with Princess Amina Ilhami", "Garden partly taken over by Ministry of Public Works in 1890 for residential development", "Palace demolished in 1903; site became al-Hilmiya al-Gadida" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-042" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-065", "SRC-EGY-066", "SRC-EGY-067" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "The palace was large enough to shape the name, street plan and architectural character of the surrounding district. Cairo Governorate describes Abbas I as having built a huge palace in the area; academic urban-morphology research dates completion to 1851 and demolition to 1903.", "source": "Aliaa AlSadaty — Patterns and Processes of Morphological Transformations; Nihal Tamraz — Nineteenth-century Cairene Houses and Palaces; Cairo Governorate — Abbassia history" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P018", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "El-Ataba El-Khadra Palace", "local_name": "قصر العتبة الخضراء", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-ʿAtaba al-Khaḍrāʾ", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Ataba / Azbakeya, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Abbas I Hilmi / Banba Kadin", "palace_type": "Dynastic Matriarch Palace / Rebuilt Royal Residence", "dates": "Mid-19th century royal rebuilding; major portions removed during later 19th-century urban redevelopment", "survival_or_status": "Lost — largely removed during Khedive Ismail’s redevelopment of Ataba and Azbakeya", "royal_provenance": "Verified by Cairo Governorate and Bibliotheca Alexandrina", "purpose_built_royal": false, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Earlier elite residence associated with Taher Pasha and predecessors", "Acquired by Abbas I, demolished/expanded and rebuilt for his mother, widow of Prince Tusun", "Royal-family residence into the Ismail period", "Large parts removed during urban replanning of Ataba/Azbakeya" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-042", "RPP-EGY-043" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-068", "SRC-EGY-069" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "A strong provenance case where an older elite palace became a genuine dynastic residence through acquisition and rebuilding. The palace gave Ataba its celebrated “Green Threshold” name.", "source": "Cairo Governorate — Ataba Square; Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Memory of Modern Egypt / El-Ataba El-Khadra Palace" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P019", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Princess Faiqa Palace", "local_name": "قصر الأميرة فائقة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīra Fāʾiqa", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Al-Munira / Ministries Square, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail / Princess Faiqa", "palace_type": "Dynastic / Princely Palace", "dates": "c.1872–1874 — exact construction year differs across secondary sources", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — former Ministry of Education headquarters; adaptive-reuse status under audit", "royal_provenance": "Verified by architectural research and Egyptian historical press", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Built by Khedive Ismail for Princess Faiqa, his adopted daughter within the khedivial household", "Dynastic residence", "Rented by the education administration from 1931 and later used as Ministry of Education headquarters", "Ministry functions moved to the New Administrative Capital; current reuse under audit" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-044" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-070", "SRC-EGY-071", "SRC-EGY-072" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED / DATE OR STATUS AUDIT OPEN", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "The 2024 International Design Journal heritage inventory identifies the former Ministry of Education building by its original name, Princess Faiqa Palace. Published Egyptian accounts differ between 1872 and 1874 for construction.", "source": "International Design Journal — Ministries Square heritage inventory; Al-Shorouk — palaces of al-Munira; Egyptian press heritage reports" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P020", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Princess Jamila Palace", "local_name": "قصر الأميرة جميلة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīra Jamīla", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Al-Munira / Ministries Square, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail / Princess Jamila", "palace_type": "Dynastic / Princely Palace", "dates": "Khedive Ismail period; exact construction date under audit", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — incorporated into the historic government-ministry quarter", "royal_provenance": "Verified by architectural research and multiple Egyptian historical accounts", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Built by Khedive Ismail for his daughter Princess Jamila", "Dynastic residence", "Later absorbed into government use in the Ministries Square area", "2024 heritage inventory identifies the historic building as Princess Jamila Palace" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-045" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-070", "SRC-EGY-071", "SRC-EGY-072" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED / DATE OR STATUS AUDIT OPEN", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "Older public accounts connect the palace building with the Ministry of Housing and other ministries on its former gardens; a 2024 academic inventory identifies the building as the Ministry of Trade and Industry building. Government use has changed over time.", "source": "International Design Journal — Ministries Square heritage inventory; Al-Shorouk / Al-Masry Al-Youm — Ismail’s daughters’ palaces" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P021", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Princess Tawhida Palace (Qasr al-Insha)", "local_name": "قصر الأميرة توحيدة / قصر الإنشاء", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Amīra Tawḥīda / Qaṣr al-Inshāʾ", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Al-Munira / Ministries Square, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Khedive Ismail / Princess Tawhida / Mansour Pasha Yegen", "palace_type": "Dynastic / Princely Palace", "dates": "Khedive Ismail period; exact construction date under audit", "survival_or_status": "Surviving — former Ministry of Military Production building", "royal_provenance": "Verified by architectural inventory and Egyptian historical sources", "purpose_built_royal": true, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [ "Built by Khedive Ismail for his daughter Princess Tawhida", "Residence associated with Princess Tawhida and her husband Mansour Pasha Yegen", "Later used by the War Ministry / Ministry of Military Production", "Government functions subsequently relocated from the historic Ministries Square area" ], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-046" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-070", "SRC-EGY-071", "SRC-EGY-072" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED / DATE OR STATUS AUDIT OPEN", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "notes": "The 2024 academic inventory lists the former Ministry of Military Production building under the original name Mansour Pasha Palace; Egyptian sources identify the palace as the residence built by Ismail for Princess Tawhida and her husband, and also call it Qasr al-Insha.", "source": "International Design Journal — Ministries Square heritage inventory; Al-Ahram / Al-Shorouk — Ismail’s daughters’ palaces" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M003-01", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Ablaq Palace of al-Nasir Muhammad", "local_name": "قصر الأبلق", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Ablaq", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Cairo Citadel, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Mamluk Sultanate", "ruler_or_royal_association": "al-Nasir Muhammad", "palace_type": "Sovereign Palace / Citadel Palace", "dates": "1313–1314 (MIT civic architecture chronology; other summaries give c.1311)", "survival_or_status": "Lost; demolished in the nineteenth-century remaking of the Citadel", "royal_provenance": "Verified sovereign palace within the Mamluk Citadel", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "RPR-EGY-M003", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-011" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-074", "SRC-EGY-076" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "MIT — Civic Architecture in Islamic History; MIT OpenCourseWare — Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-M016", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Palace of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub at the Roda Citadel", "local_name": "", "transliteration": "", "local_name_status": "Historical Arabic palace name requires source-level standardisation", "place": "Roda Island, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Ayyubid Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub", "palace_type": "Fortified Sovereign Palace / Royal Citadel", "dates": "Roda Citadel 1240–1243; palace/audience hall documented c.1248", "survival_or_status": "Lost; Roda Citadel vanished; later Manasterly Palace occupies part of the historic site", "royal_provenance": "Verified sovereign residence and audience palace within the Roda Citadel", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-048" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-074", "SRC-EGY-075", "SRC-EGY-077" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "local_name_status": "Historical Arabic palace name requires source-level standardisation", "source": "MIT OpenCourseWare — Ayyubid Period / Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo; Cairo Governorate — Manasterly Palace" } }, { "id": "RPR-EGY-P022", "country": "Egypt", "english_name": "Mounira Palace", "local_name": "قصر المنيرة", "transliteration": "Qaṣr al-Munīra", "local_name_status": "Stored", "place": "Mounira, Cairo", "dynasty_or_ruling_system": "Muhammad Ali Dynasty", "ruler_or_royal_association": "Amina Ilhami · Princess Nimetallah Tawfiq · Prince Ibrahim Hilmi Pasha", "palace_type": "Dynastic / Princely Palace", "dates": "Palace documented 1892; dynastic transfer 1896; rebuilt after 1898; wings added 1903–1905; IFAO acquired 1907", "survival_or_status": "Surviving; Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO)", "royal_provenance": "Verified multi-generation dynastic residence; present palace rebuilt/expanded under Prince Ibrahim Hilmi Pasha", "purpose_built_royal": null, "current_use": "", "parent_complex": "", "function_history": [], "hospitality_class": "", "people_ids": [ "RPP-EGY-029", "RPP-EGY-039", "RPP-EGY-049" ], "source_ids": [ "SRC-EGY-073" ], "audit_status": "VERIFIED", "audit_notes": [], "legacy_fields": { "source": "IFAO — The Mounira Palace: 100 Years at Palais Mounira" } } ], "aliases": [ { "alias_id": "RPR-EGY-H003", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-M007-01", "reason": "Duplicate hospitality entry consolidated into canonical Salamlek Palace record; hotel use retained as an attribute." }, { "alias_id": "Qasr al-Walda Pasha", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-P011", "reason": "Historical name for Al-Qasr Al-Aly during its use by Khoshyar Hanim (Walda Pasha); not a separate palace record." }, { "alias": "Saray al-Hilmiya", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-P017", "reason": "Common historical form for Al-Hilmiya Palace." }, { "alias": "Saray al-Ataba / Saraya el-Ataba", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-P018", "reason": "Historical forms used for El-Ataba El-Khadra Palace." }, { "alias": "Mansour Pasha Palace", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-P021", "reason": "Academic heritage inventory name for the Princess Tawhida / Qasr al-Insha residence." }, { "alias": "Qasr al-Insha", "canonical_id": "RPR-EGY-P021", "reason": "Historical name used for Princess Tawhida’s palace." } ], "palace_claims": [ { "id": "PCR-EGY-001", "name": "Winter Palace Luxor", "local_name": "", "classification": "Hotel Named Palace", "royal_provenance": "No", "built_as": "Hotel", "rpr": "Excluded", "place": "Luxor", "dates": "1886", "reason": "Historic luxury hotel; no verified royal-residence provenance. Palace is part of the hotel name, not a dynastic residence.", "source": "Accor — Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor" }, { "id": "PCR-EGY-002", "name": "Al-Ittihadiya Palace / Heliopolis Palace Hotel", "local_name": "قصر الاتحادية", "classification": "Hotel-Origin Presidential Palace / Palace in Later Government Name", "royal_provenance": "No verified royal-residence provenance", "built_as": "Heliopolis Palace Hotel", "rpr": "Excluded from Royal Palaces Registry", "place": "Heliopolis, Cairo", "dates": "Built 1908–1910; hotel opened 1 December 1910; government acquired 1958; presidential complex later", "reason": "The building now called a palace originated as a luxury hotel, not a residence of the Egyptian royal dynasty. Royal guests stayed there, but guest use is not royal provenance.", "source": "Presidency of Egypt — Al-Ittihadiya Palace (Heliopolis Palace)" } ] }