Sultan's Palace (Zanzibar)
| Sultan's Palace بيت الساحل |
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Stone Town , Zanzibar
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| Construction year | around 1896 | |
| Coordinates | 6 ° 9 '35.6 " S , 39 ° 11' 25.8" E | |
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The Sultan's Palace ( Arabic بيت الساحل) is the former main palace of the Sultan in the Sultanate of Zanzibar , today's Tanzanian state of Zanzibar .
The 3-storey palace was built with battlements at the end of the 19th century and is not far from another former sultan's residence, the House of Wonders . After the revolution in Zanzibar in 1964, the palace was in People's Palace , the Palace of the People , renamed and used as a seat of government. Since 1994 the palace has served as the site of a museum.
See also
Web links
Commons : Sultan's Palace Zanzibar - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Museums; Palace Museum. Zanzibar Tourism. Retrieved May 29, 2020.