Beshtak Palace
A Mamluk emir's 14th-century palace on Cairo's medieval Muizz Street
Source: Mohamed abdelzaher, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
About
Built between 1334 and 1339 for Sayf al-Din Bashtak, a Mamluk emir married to a daughter of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, the palace originally rose five stories with running water and ground-floor shops. Only part of it survives, notably a grand reception hall with a coffered wooden ceiling, colored-glass windows, and a marble fountain, restored by the German Archaeological Institute in 1983.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Photographs and artwork
Photographers and artists of Cairo
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