Khartoum Presidential Palace
The Presidential Palace of Khartoum is the seat of government of the President of Sudan in the capital, Khartoum .
The palace is located on the banks of the Blue Nile , around 1,600 meters west of Khartoum University and around 1,900 meters east of the National Museum . The palace has a garden of around 7 hectares and other smaller buildings that limit the garden to the outside.
history
The palace of the governor general ( hikimdar ) of the Egyptian Sudan was located on the site of the present palace until 1885 . After the city was conquered by the Mahdists in the course of the siege of Khartoum , the palace was destroyed in order to obtain building material for Omdurman , the new capital of the Mahdists. After the conquest of Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian troops under Horatio Herbert Kitchener , a ceremonial victory celebration was held on the ruins of the governor's palace on September 4, 1898, with which the beginning of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is connected. The reconstruction of the palace was one of the first building activities of the British from November 29, 1898 in Khartoum. The first head of the reconstruction work, George Frederick Gorringe, designed the new palace in the late Victorian style with oriental arcades . The construction was then completed by MR Kennedy.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Gertel: Khartoum hot spot. History and structure of the housing problem in the Sudanese capital . Breitenbach Verlag, Saarbrücken / Fort Lauderdale 1993, ISBN 3-88156-599-X , p. 88, 92, 94 .
Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 32 ° 31 ′ 37.8 ″ E