Bayt Al-Suhaymi
A five-story Ottoman merchant house on Cairo's Darb al-Asfar
About
Built in 1648 and later merged with a second house added in 1796, Bayt al-Suhaymi is named for its last resident, a shaykh of al-Azhar's Turkish riwaq. Its roughly 115 rooms are arranged around a central courtyard with separate quarters for men and women, a layout typical of Ottoman-era Cairo homes, and it now operates as a museum of domestic architecture and folklore after a 1990s restoration.
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