Bait Al-Razzaz
Merged Mamluk and Ottoman mansion of over a hundred rooms, split between a restored wing and one still in ruin.
This guide to Bait Al-Razzaz in Cairo follows two houses joined into one, starting with the eastern house built around 1480 for people close to the Mamluk sultan Qaitbay. It traces how a rice merchant named Ahmad Katkhuda al-Razzaz later bought that house and built a second beside it for his own household of over a hundred rooms, and how a marriage between the two families cut a passage through the shared wall. It also covers what happened after everyone left in the 1960s, and the restoration work still underway on one side. Stand in the doorway between the two wings to feel the difference for yourself.
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