Khairy Pasha Palace

Khairy Pasha Palace is a neo-Mamluk building and former palace of Khairy Pasha, located on 113 Qasr El Eyni Street, in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

The building in the photograph on the right was originally the Girls' School of the Greek Community of Cairo.

[2] Its Mamluk mediaeval Egyptian revival style, along with Moorish Revival and other traditions of Islamic Revival architecture, were integrated with European Beaux-Arts, Second Empire, and Art Nouveau style influences were used throughout modernizing Cairo in creating the vision of the 19th-century ruler Khedive Ismail, who commissioned the new downtown district's 'Paris on the Nile' design.

The Khairy building was acquired by the American Mission in Egypt in 1919, and opened as the original 1920 American University at Cairo campus structure in downtown Cairo.

The university's continuing education programs remained at the 7.8 acres (32,000 m2) 'AUC Downtown' with the main building still the converted Khairy Pasha palace.