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A Village

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: A village in Sennar

University of Khartoum

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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.

St Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

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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.

Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

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Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings

Description: Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Decorated Camels

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: Decorated camels, Kassala

Atbara The Broadway

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: Atbara, The Broadway

National Museum of Sudan

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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.

Old Omdurman Stadium

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Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings

Description: Old Omdurman Stadium

C. T. MADIGAN, 'A Description Of Some Old Towers In The Red Sea Province North Of Port Sudan', Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 5 No. 2 1922, pp.78-82

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Collection: universityofkhartoum.sudannotesandrecords

Description: A description of several towers on the Red Sea based on the author's visit including photographs and sketches.

Acropole Hotel

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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.

Khartoum Hilton Hotel

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Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings

Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Khartoum Grand Mosque

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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.

National Museum of Sudan

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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.

Halfa Dockyard

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: Halfa in the Dockyard

Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources

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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.

Sudan, cars on the street with Grand Hotel in Khartoum.

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Collection: americangeographicalsocietylibraryuniversityofwisconsinmilwaukee.photographs

Description: Sudan, Khartoum, Nile-Side Road.

University of Khartoum

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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.

Kitchener School of Medicine

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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.

Khartoum Hilton Hotel

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Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings

Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel

Suakin

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: Suakin

Sahara Hotel

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Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings

Description: Sahara Hotel, Khartoum’s Old Downtown

Omdurman Beach

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Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images

Description: Life on the shore of Omdurman

D. C. Cumming, 'The History Of Kassala And The Province Of Taka', Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 20 No. 1 1937, pp.1-45

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Collection: universityofkhartoum.sudannotesandrecords

Description: The History Of Kassala And The Province Of Taka

Etienne Square

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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.

Disappearing Heritage of Sudan, 1820-1956

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Collection: frederiquecifuentes.colonialarchitecturalheritage

Description: A short documentary film that investigates the disappearing colonial heritage of Sudan 1820-1956. The film is based on photographic and filmic research undertaken by Frederique Cifuentes in Sudan from 2004 to 2010. One of the most important outcomes of this journey was to build up a new and unique collection of photographs and videos that documents the remnants of the colonial experience in Sudan from the Ottoman, Egyptian, and British periods.