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University of Khartoum

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The University of Khartoum, located between Nile Street and Gamma Street, Khartoum, is the oldest and largest university in Sudan. The university was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence.
University of Khartoum

St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral is located on the bank of the Blue Nile, next to the El Mek Nimir Bridge, Khartoum. It is the seat of the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Khartoum, under the patronage of Saint Matthew the Apostle. The cathedral was completed in 1908, built in the neo-Romanesque style. The cathedral replaced a small church, built in 1847 to serve as the cathedral church after the Apostolic Vicariate of Sudan or Central-Africa was erected here in 1846, and that was destroyed when Khartoum was taken over by the Mahdistas in 1885.
St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown
Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

National Museum of Sudan

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The National Museum of Sudan, located along Nile Street, Khartoum, is a two story building constructed in 1955 and established as a museum in 1971. The building and its surrounding gardens house the largest and most comprehensive Nubian archaeological collection in the world.
National Museum of Sudan

Old Omdurman Stadium

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Old Omdurman Stadium
Old Omdurman Stadium

Acropole Hotel

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Acropole Hotel, Khartoum's Old Downtown. From the 1960s to early 1980s, the old downtown area was a renowned vibrant area with both a Sudanese and international community. The area included many nightclubs, shops and services. Here, one could find live music, imported goods, Sudan’s oldest bookshop and what was Khartoum’s only optician. The Greek owned Acropole Hotel is one of the few surviving businesses from this time.
Acropole Hotel

Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel
Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Khartoum Grand Mosque

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The Grand Mosque is situated in the centre of old Khartoum, beside Khartoum’s Central Station. The mosque was built during the Turkish rule in Turkish-Islamic style and accommodates up to 10,000 people for prayers. It hosts an institute for the training of Islamic scholars.
Khartoum Grand Mosque

National Museum of Sudan

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The National Museum of Sudan, located along Nile Street, Khartoum, is a two story building constructed in 1955 and established as a museum in 1971. The building and its surrounding gardens house the largest and most comprehensive Nubian archaeological collection in the world.
National Museum of Sudan

Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, Gamma Street, Khartoum. A colonial era building with a modern extension to the front elevation.
Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources

University of Khartoum

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The University of Khartoum, located between Nile Street and Gamma Street, Khartoum, is the oldest and largest university in Sudan. The university was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence.
University of Khartoum

Kitchener School of Medicine

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The Kitchener School of Medicine, El Qasr Avenue, Khartoum. The school was opened in 1924 in memory of Herbert Kitchener, the Governor-General of Sudan 1898-1900. The school was founded with funds raised from the public, mostly from the United Kingdom. Yearly running costs were financed by endowments and by Sudan government subsidies. After Sudan gained independence in 1956, Kitchener School of Medicine became the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum.
Kitchener School of Medicine

Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel
Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Sahara Hotel

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Sahara Hotel, Khartoum’s Old Downtown
Sahara Hotel

Etienne Square

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Etienne Square, El Gamhuriya Street, Khartoum’s old downtown. The square contains a number of traditional Sudan and African craft stores, it is considered a gathering place for writers, artists, intellectuals and politicians, and is well known as the location of the monthly open-air book market called Mafroush (a Sudanese Arabic word meaning displayed), established by ‘Work Cultural Group’ in 2012 (banned by the authorities in 2015). Etienne Square is thus associated with enabling literary freedom and access, following the closure of many of Khartoum’s bookstores (Khartoum’s bookstores having numbered 400 in the 1960s) and during governmental restrictions that limited publication freedom and access.
Etienne Square

University of Khartoum

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The University of Khartoum, located between Nile Street and Gamma Street, Khartoum, is the oldest and largest university in Sudan. The university was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence.
University of Khartoum

King Farouq Mosque

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: King Farouq Mosque, Khartoum
King Farouq Mosque

Da'rat al-Mahdi

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The house of Al-Sayyid Abd-al-Rahman al-Mahdi, El Gamhuriya Avenue, Khartoum. Located opposite this house is what is known as 'da'rat al-Mahdi', which is another building where the Mahdi family businesses had offices and were administered from.
Da'rat al-Mahdi

St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral is located on the bank of the Blue Nile, next to the El Mek Nimir Bridge, Khartoum. It is the seat of the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Khartoum, under the patronage of Saint Matthew the Apostle. The cathedral was completed in 1908, built in the neo-Romanesque style. The cathedral replaced a small church, built in 1847 to serve as the cathedral church after the Apostolic Vicariate of Sudan or Central-Africa was erected here in 1846, and that was destroyed when Khartoum was taken over by the Mahdistas in 1885.
St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

University of Khartoum

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The University of Khartoum, located between Nile Street and Gamma Street, Khartoum, is the oldest and largest university in Sudan. The university was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence.
University of Khartoum

Khartoum Eye Hospital

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum Eye Hospital, also known as Khartoum Teaching Eye Hospital, located beside the Blue Nile Bridge on Nile Street, Khartoum. The Eye Hospital is part of the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, established in 1958, and was the first time in tropical Africa that an Orthoptic department and a school for Eye Medical Assistants school were established. The hospital is still the main eye hospital in Sudan.
Khartoum Eye Hospital

University of Khartoum

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The University of Khartoum, located between Nile Street and Gamma Street, Khartoum, is the oldest and largest university in Sudan. The university was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence.
University of Khartoum

Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum’s old downtown, located immediately south of the old administrative area that runs along the bank of the Blue Nile on Nile Street, is laid out to follow a European-style grid system with regular, straight streets. Since the earlier 20th century, the old downtown has contained commercial and business offices. The area is made up mostly of the older multi-storey buildings, built in the ‘new modern style’ of the early 20th century, and more recent modern multi-storey structures. From the 1960s to early 1980s, the old downtown area was a renowned vibrant area with both a Sudanese and international community. The area included many nightclubs, shops and services. Here, one could find live music, imported goods, Sudan’s oldest bookshop and what was Khartoum’s only optician. The Greek owned Acropole Hotel is one of the few surviving businesses from this time.
Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown
Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum’s old downtown, located immediately south of the old administrative area that runs along the bank of the Blue Nile on Nile Street, is laid out to follow a European-style grid system with regular, straight streets. Since the earlier 20th century, the old downtown has contained commercial and business offices. The area is made up mostly of the older multi-storey buildings, built in the ‘new modern style’ of the early 20th century, and more recent modern multi-storey structures. From the 1960s to early 1980s, the old downtown area was a renowned vibrant area with both a Sudanese and international community. The area included many nightclubs, shops and services. Here, one could find live music, imported goods, Sudan’s oldest bookshop and what was Khartoum’s only optician. The Greek owned Acropole Hotel is one of the few surviving businesses from this time.
Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Da'rat al-Mahdi

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The house of Al-Sayyid Abd-al-Rahman al-Mahdi, El Gamhuriya Avenue, Khartoum. Located opposite this house is what is known as 'da'rat al-Mahdi', which is another building where the Mahdi family businesses had offices and were administered from.
Da'rat al-Mahdi

Pink Palace

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The Pink Palace, located along Nile Street and close to the University of Khartoum, is a large building built of pink stone. It often serves as accommodation for those visiting the University. In 1940, the Pink Palace served as the residence and temporary headquarters of the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, while he was in exile. From here, the indigenous guerrilla war against bloody Fascist rule over Ethiopia was supported by the British.
Pink Palace

Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum’s old downtown, located immediately south of the old administrative area that runs along the bank of the Blue Nile on Nile Street, is laid out to follow a European-style grid system with regular, straight streets. Since the earlier 20th century, the old downtown has contained commercial and business offices. The area is made up mostly of the older multi-storey buildings, built in the ‘new modern style’ of the early 20th century, and more recent modern multi-storey structures. From the 1960s to early 1980s, the old downtown area was a renowned vibrant area with both a Sudanese and international community. The area included many nightclubs, shops and services. Here, one could find live music, imported goods, Sudan’s oldest bookshop and what was Khartoum’s only optician. The Greek owned Acropole Hotel is one of the few surviving businesses from this time.
Khartoum’s Old Downtown
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