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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.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel
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.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Wady Saydna School is one of the three most distinguished schools in Omdurman.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Wady Saydna School is one of the three most distinguished schools in Omdurman.
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.
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.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Wady Saydna School is one of the three most distinguished schools in Omdurman.
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.
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.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: The Khartoum Post Office, located along Gamma Avenue, Khartoum, opened in 1873. The building, constructed of large sandstone blocks and featuring Crittall steel-framed windows from the UK, remained in use as a post office until 2013, when it was closed for restoration.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Khartoum Hilton Hotel
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.
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.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Sharif al-Hindi Palace, located in Burri in east Khartoum, was the home of Sharif Yusuf al-Hindi, who was the influential leader of the small Hindiya tariqa (a religious brotherhood founded in Sudan). In 1913, he settled in Burri al-Lamab, then a village in the Khartoum suburbs.
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.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: View from Tadamon Bank, El Baladiya Avenue, Khartoum.
Collection: issamahmedabdelhafiez.khartoumandomdurmanbuildings
Description: Market Street, Khartoum’s Old Downtown
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.
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.
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