Al Sehemy House
Informations About Al Sehemy House
The Citadel area is considered one of the most archaeological and civilized areas in Egypt, as it was one of the headquarters of the ancient Egyptian kingdoms with its various cultures, and this area has contained the most archaeological holdings throughout the ages, and besides the archaeological and civilizational richness, there is a house that is considered a unique model of the remnants of the architecture of private residential houses, which is the Suhaimi House, and you cannot pass by Al-Moez Street in the heart of historic Cairo without catching your attention with this charming building with its windows overlooking the street.
The Suhaimi House takes you to the Ottoman era, which was characterized by creativity in the arts of distinctive Islamic architecture, and the Suhaimi House is a unique model of the architecture of private residential houses with an Islamic character.
It is the only integrated house that represents the architecture of Cairo in the Ottoman era in Egypt, and it was used by the Egyptian cinema to film some movie scenes in this charming house, and the follower of Egyptian movies in which this type of archaeological bot is used is possessed by the desire to go back in time to live in one of the houses in which the scenes of these movies were filmed due to the beauty of its architecture and decorations, as it is one of these houses and still stands tall until now.
Muhammad Amin al-Suhaimi came to Egypt to settle in that house, where he held Ramadan nights, and made it a religious and secular arena for consultation, as well as a shelter for passers-by from the people of Macca. When Amin Al Suhaimi died in 1928, the Egyptian state contacted his family and the house became one of Egypt's most prestigious Islamic monuments in 1931
The monument represents a historical and Islamic era that had a great impact on Egypt during the Ottoman era, which took this house as a symbol of the architecture of Cairo (1517-1798).
The house is located in Darb al-Asfar, one of the old neighbourhoods in Fatimid Cairo, and was built in the Ottoman era, where the southern section was built by Sheikh Abdel Wahab al-Tablawi in 1058 AH/1648 AD and recorded on a piece of wood in one of the walls of the house
The northern section was built by Hajj Ismail Shalabi, Sheikh Yandar Al-Tajar in 1211 AH/1796 AD, and was named Al-Suhaimi after the last person who lived in it, Sheikh Muhammad Amin Al-Suhaimi, Sheikh of the Turkish Portico in Al-Azhar Mosque, with an area of two thousand square metres, and the house includes several halls, each of which consists of two courtyards with a marble courtyard in the middle of each of them
Some of the ceilings of the halls are skylights topped with a wooden shakhshikha, and the walls of some halls are decorated from below with decorative wood decorations in the form of faience tiles. The floors are covered with marble, and the halls of the house have beautiful mashrabiya, wooden windows and cupboards, and the house has archaeological writings that include the date of construction and the builder, as well as the poem ‘Al-Burda’ by Imam al-Busairi.
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