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Archives and Libraries

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

Egyptian National Library and Archives (Dar Al-Kottob Al-masryyia-Bab al-Khalq)
Corniche El Nil
Ramlet Boulaq, Cairo
Arab Republic of Egypt

Phone: 02-25751078 / 02-25752883 / 02-25750886
Fax: 202-25789547

• Website
• Wikipedia: Egyptian National Library and Archives
• UNESCO: Dar Al-Kutub Manuscripts article
• Visiting the archive (article)
  • The National Archives contain census records, Sharia court records, and Ottoman records in their Documents collection, but these have not been digitized and are only viewable in-person after following all of the correct visiting procedures

Endangered Archives: Egypt

Dar al-Mahfuzat al-ʿUmumiyya
2 Shari’a al-Mahjar
Cairo, Egypt

• Informational article, Hazine
  
• Permission needs to be requested from the Security Bureau (Maktab al-Amn) of the Property Tax Office of the Finance Ministry, at the left side of the Saʿd Zaghlul Mausoleum. Three important collections are described below:
  • The pension dossiers of state employees between the 1830s and 1959. In these dossiers one can trace the entire careers of state employees and obtain some information on their heirs. These files provide also an insight into the administrative work and cooperation between different branches of the state.
  • The tax-registers of buildings in Cairo which once belonged to the Cairo Governorate [Muhafazat Misr]), and possibly of other cities as well, from the turn of the century to the early 1950s.
  • Tax registers of agricultural lands.

Hazine

• Website
  
  • Researching Modern Egypt Online - List of online collections for Modern Egypt research

Libraries

Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Corniche
Alexandria, Egypt

Phone: + (203) 4839999 - Ext: 1573 and 1574
Email: visits@bibalex.org
Website
Visit guidelines
Digital Assets Repository

The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the Library's digital collections. Explore our large collection of Arabic digital books, photo albums and more. Source: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Wikipedia: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information and details about the Library.

St. Catherine’s Monastery Library
Phone, Athens Dependency: +30 210 6461 401
Phonr, Mount Sinai Foundation: +30 210 6454 923
Fax: +20 69 3470 341 & 3
Email: sinaimonastery@gmail.com
Website

The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books. It also contains some very rare Hebrew Language books.

Arab Genealogy Books Online
Website
Open access collection of Arabic genealogy books that have been digitized and can be browsed by country/region. Books contain valuable information about tribal histories and family lineages.

Museums

Dar al-Kutub Museum in Bab al-Khalq
121 Nile Corniche
RAMLET BOULAK
Bulaq, Cairo Governorate 4311110
Egypt

Phone: +20225750886
Website

Record Offices

Department of Civil Status (under the Ministry of Interior)
Magles El Shaab Street
Kasr El Aini St
Cairo, Egypt
Telephone: +20 7958014
Fax: +20 7958048
Website