Abdin Palace
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace, a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the 1952 Egyptian revolution.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: palace of Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “‘Ābidīn Palace”, “Abdeen Palace”, “Palais Abidine”, “Qaşr ‘Ābdīn”, “Qaşr ‘Ābidīn”, and “Qasr `Abidin”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tahrir Square and Egyptian Museum.
Tahrir Square
Square
Photo: Waelmansoory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations. Tahrir Square is situated 1¼ km west of Abdin Palace.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the Egyptological museum which houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items. Egyptian Museum is situated 1½ km northwest of Abdin Palace.
Museum of Islamic Art
Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Egypt is considered one of the greatest museums in the world, with its exceptional collection of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world. Museum of Islamic Art is situated 550 metres northeast of Abdin Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abdin and Bab al-Louq.
Bab al-Louq
Suburb
Bab al-Louq is a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there. Bab al-Louq square is the oldest square in Cairo, dating back to the Mamluk era.
Downtown Cairo
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo. In addition to hosting the Egyptian Museum, Downtown is the convenient location of many smaller hotels, retail outlets, travel agencies and restaurants.
Abdin Palace
- Categories: royal palace, castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04277° or 30° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
31.24746° or 31° 14′ 51″ eastElevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
8G2H26VW+4XOpenStreetMap ID
way 24942979OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
425182Wikidata ID
Q307747
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Abdin Palace” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pallati Abdin”
- Arabic: “قصر عابدين”
- Armenian: “Պալատ Աբդին”
- Basque: “Abdin jauregia”
- Chinese: “埃及冬宮”
- Chinese: “蒂恩角宮”
- Dutch: “Abdeen Palace”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قصر عابدين”
- Esperanto: “Palaco Abdeen”
- Finnish: “Abadainin palatsi”
- French: “Palais d’Abedin au Caire”
- French: “palais d’Abedin”
- French: “Palais d’Abedin”
- German: “Abdeen-Palast”
- German: “Abdin-Palast”
- German: “Qasr Abdin”
- Hebrew: “ארמון עאבדין”
- Igbo: “Abdeen Palace”
- Igbo: “Palais Abidine”
- Indonesian: “Istana Abdeen”
- Indonesian: “Istana Abidin”
- Italian: “Palazzo ‘Abidin”
- Italian: “Palazzo ’Abidin”
- Japanese: “アブディーン宮殿”
- Japanese: “アブデン宮殿”
- Korean: “압딘 궁전”
- Persian: “کاخ عابدین”
- Persian: “کاخموزه عابدین”
- Portuguese: “Palácio de Abdeen”
- Romanian: “Palatul Abdin”
- Russian: “Дворец Абдин”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Abdeen”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Abdín”
- Swedish: “Abdeenpalatset”
- Tamil: “அப்தீன் அரண்மனை”
- Turkish: “Abidin Sarayı”
- Ukrainian: “Палац Абдін”
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