Name

Year

Hasan-Kachef Palace

2024

Project Info

Hassan-Kashif Palace (Elevation) Cairo — circa eighteenth century, no longer extant A late Ottoman-Mamluk residence on the western edge of the Ezbekiyya district, seized in 1798 by Bonaparte's expedition to house the newly founded Institut d'Égypte. The palace held the Institute's library, laboratories, and the natural-history collections gathered by its members across Egypt. The elevation is drawn from the surveys carried out on site by Pierre-Joseph Protain. The building did not survive the nineteenth century. Architect unknown

Code

qts_04_ori_hasan_kachef