This beautiful palace located in El Manial is one of the classiest most stunning places you could ever visit. Manial Palace built for Prince Mohammad Ali between 1899 and 1929. The palace was given to the Egyptian nation in 1955. Prince Muhammad Ali is the first cousin of King Faruq and the younger brother of Khepe Abbas II Hilmi.
El Manial Palace
Elements of Mameluke architecture can be seen in the palace’s saray domestic spaces, especially in the main gate as well in its use of mashrabiya and the glass-embedded windows that overlook an Andalusian-style fountain. The palace’s mosque is built in the Moroccan style.
El Manial Palace
The complex consists of six structures; these structures are a museum which includes Faruq’s hunting trophies, the prince’s residence and furnishings. There are also gardens that have beautiful plants and flowers that are worth seeing.
It was therefore against a background of luxuriant tropical and desert plants that the five detached palace buildings formed the ensemble of Manial Palace where Turco-Islamic architecture prevailed. Whether in the ”salamlik” reception quarters, the ”haramlik” main residence, the throne room, the golden hall or the palace mosque, Turkish ceramics from Iznik and Kutahaya adorned the walls.
Elements of Mameluke architecture
The Golden Hall became the scene of sundry Sadat era mega-weddings where poetry readings and piano recitals had filled the rarefied palace halls.
The palace also includes a collection of manuscripts, carpets, textiles, brass work and crystal. Items that can be seen here are a table made of elephant ears and a 1000-piece silver service and a hotel has been built that called Meridian Hotel. The palace is also home to a rare collection of antiques that the prince collected from different parts of the world or picked out of the rubble of collapsing Mameluke and Ottoman houses.
The palace’s decorated by plaster and wooden ceilings with intrinsic designs and works of art from which hung giant Turkish and glass mishkas chandeliers.
Ibn Batuta, the well traveled, European-educated prince was bent on reviving what remained of the fabled gardens in a large dedicated enclosure henceforth known as the Manial Palace.
El Manial Palace
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