Bab al-Khalq Courthouse
This is the Bab al-Khalq Courthouse, also known as the Court of Appeal or the South Cairo Court. This site was originally part of the garden of Mansour Pasha Yakan’s palace, which stood where the Cairo Security Directorate is now located. The building’s foundation stone was laid in 1898 and it opened in 1901. At the rear of the building there was a prison where pretrial detainees were held …
This is the Bab al-Khalq Courthouse, also known as the Court of Appeal or the South Cairo Court.
This site was originally part of the garden of Mansour Pasha Yakan’s palace, which stood where the Cairo Security Directorate is now located. The building’s foundation stone was laid in 1898 and it opened in 1901. At the rear of the building there was a prison where pretrial detainees were held until judgments were issued.
On 31 December 1933, King Fuad I attended a ceremony in this building marking fifty years since the establishment of the national courts, as a marble plaque beside the door tells us.
In 2010, the South Cairo Court moved its operations to a new building in Zeinhom. On 4 April 2013, this building was hit by a massive fire that destroyed much of its contents. The building has been closed ever since. The Ministry of Justice has a project to convert it into a museum of the judiciary, but the project has been stalled for years and there do not appear to be any serious steps toward implementing it anytime soon.
Location: Port Said Street, Bab al-Khalq.