People's Palace (Algiers)

The People's Palace (Arabic: قصر الشعب, French: Palais du Peuple), formerly Palais d'été ("Summer Palace" of the Governor), is a public building in Algiers.

It was the country home of Mustapha Khodja el Kheil, a minister of the Dey.

During the winter, the governor resided in the palais d'hiver also known as Dar Hassan Pacha, on the northern side of Saint-Philip Cathedral (now the Ketchaoua Mosque) in the Casbah of Algiers.

[1] Ahmed Ben Bella renamed it and made it the seat of government following the end of the country's war of independence.

Following the 1965 Algerian coup d'état, Houari Boumédiène transferred the President's Office to the newly built El Mouradia Palace.

Palais d’été during the colonial era
Main façade before 1910s remodeling