Egypt Archives and Libraries
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- 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 Family History 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
Al-Azhar University; al-Azhar Library
American University in Cairo
Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo (NVIC)
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)
Franciscan Centre of Christian Oriental Studies
Akhbar al-Yawm Newspaper Archive
Ruz al Yusuf Foundation
Dar Al Hilal Newspaper Archive
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.
- The documents preserved in Dar al-Mahfuzat today certainly include three important collections.
- 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.[1]
- The documents preserved in Dar al-Mahfuzat today certainly include three important collections.
Libraries
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Corniche
Alexandria, Egypt
Phone: + (203) 4839999 - Ext: 1573 and 1574
E-mail: 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.
Wikipedia: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information and details
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
E-mail: 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, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books, and very rare Hebrew Language, some Coptic books.[2]
Museums
Dar al-Kutub Museum in Bab al-Khalq
Coptic Museum and Patriarchate
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
References
- ↑ "Informational article", Hazine, https://hazineblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/daralmahfuzat/, accessed 2 December 2022.
- ↑ "Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.