Abdeen_Palace
Abdeen Palace
Historic palace in Cairo, Egypt
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as Egypt's seat of government from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952.[1] Since then it is one of the presidential palaces.[1] The palace is centered in its eponymous district, administratively part of the Western Area of Cairo,[2] and part of the Khedival Cairo Area of Value[3] to the west of Historic Cairo.