EGYPT LANDMARKS

12:01 PM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Ras El-Teen Palace is one oldest palace in Egypt, and overlooking the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Palace and head figs a historical landmark and archaeological sites in Alexandria, and historic importance of this palace that the palace and the only one who has witnessed the emergence of the family of Mohamed Ali Pasha in Egypt, which lasted about one hundred and 50 years, and is the largest palaces in Alexandria, which enter the phone year in 1879 the end of the reign of Khedive Ismail, take it off before the throne of Britain. And is the same palace, which saw the end of the rule of the family in upper Egypt when he saw off King Farouk and saw the departure into exile from Italy on board the royal yacht guarded the port of Ras fig.

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11:42 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Cathedral of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Cathedral, built on land next to the Saint-Royce Batrsip the church and built by Boutros Boutros-Ghali Pasha.

Located in the district Abbasid. Built in the sixties of the last century, with contributions from President Gamal Abdel Nasser to build the cathedral, several thousands of pounds, attended the opening ceremony, along with Emperor Haile Selassie Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), and was then Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark is a Bishop Kyrillos VI, who was elected after Pope Shenouda III. Cathedral of St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church is the Pope of Alexandria headquarters in Cairo.

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11:30 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Is the first Coptic Orthodox church is built in the district of Egypt, Heliopolis The idea of the Established Church in 1917 and formed a committee for the position of Abbas Street in laying the foundation stone on Friday, June 16th 1922 under the auspices of Pope Cyril VI and attended St. USAP Bishop of Fayoum and Giza started praying regularly the church until 1930 when construction was completed and began to pray in the church, as was the altar of Ms. Virgin is the baptism

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11:12 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Baron Empain Palace, an ancient palace a stunning beauty and is located in the heart of Heliopolis, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, in a street Arabism specifically on the main road to Cairo International Airport and oversees the palace on the street Arabism and Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jabir Hassan Sadiq · designed by French architect Alexandre Marcel Marcel Alexander (in 1860 - 1928) and decorated by Georges-Louis Claude Louis Claude George (1879 - 1963) and was completed in 1911

Built by millionaire Belgian Baron Edouard Empain (September 20 1852 - July 22 1929),
who came to Egypt from India at the end of the nineteenth century, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal, where he remained in Egypt and chose a dessert place (at the time) to build his palace in the center of suburb of Heliopolis, which Onconha near the capital Cairo and Suez as well, his choice fell on the design engineer, a Frenchman, Marcel Alexander, who shows the design of the short adapt European models and the Indian engineering exhibition in Paris in 1905 where he was impressed by the Baron and was bought to be one first building decorated Desert of Egypt New in 1911, bringing together between the two methods in the design of architects, one from the Palace of the Renaissance, especially for foreign statues and the wall of the palace, but the palace itself belonged to the Cambodian-style dome long sweetened statues of Buddha, bringing the Marble Palace from Italy, crystal from Czechoslovakia, and occupies the palace and extensive gardens A 12,500 square meters and finished construction of the palace of the world in 1911. A unique architectural masterpiece of its kind on the grounds that the only palace in the world that escapes him in the sun all day, was that the construction of the concrete base on Billy Bearings spin on the wheels so that it surrounds the palace including (every hour) to see standing in the balcony of what is going on around him and followed the sun in rotation throughout the daylight hours. Provided the palace homeworkers and Entourages and began the ceremonies and the hills and to ensure Artadh community leaders who were the focus of his concerts until the death of Baron in Belgium, in 1929 of cancer.

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