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Baron Empain Palace

Cairo Governorate, Egypt · built 1907

The Baron Empain Palace ("Qasr el Baron Emban"), also known as Le Palais Hindou (lit. 'The Hindu Palace'), is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt. It was built in 1905 for Édouard Empain, Baron Empain, a Belgian businessman and industrialist with particular interests in tramways. The building was inspired architecturally by Hindu temples.

Palace data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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