Bayt AlSinnari
Al Komi, El-Kashef ln, El-Sayeda Zainab, Cairo, Egypt
Sayeda Zeinab
About
Sinnari House (Bayt al-Sinnari) is one of the remaining bourgeois mansions in the district of al-Sayeda Zeinab. It is located in the neighborhood of al-Nasseriya in the dead-end of Monge alley. The house is the property of Ibrahim Katkhuda al-Sinnari. He was a Mamluk of Murad Bek, with Berber origins as reported by al-Jabarti, and his surname refers to the city of Sennar. In 1798, the house was confiscated by the French to serve as a place and residence for the members of the Commission of Science and Arts that accompanied the military expedition of Napoleon to Egypt. Their mission was to conduct a systematic study of Egypt, with the publication of Description de l’Egypte at the top of their achievements. An original copy of this book was donated to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, by Dr. Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary-General.
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