Dar El Monastiri ( ar, دار المنستيري) is a palace in the
Medina of Tunis
The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from ...
.
Localization
It is located in 9 El Monastiri Street near
Sidi Mahrez
Sidi Mahrez ben Khalaf or Abu Mohamed Mahrez ben Khalaf ben Zayn ( ar, سيدي محرز بن خلف; 951–1022) was a Tunisian Wali, scholar of the Maliki school of jurisprudence and a Qadi. He is considered to be the patron-saint of the city of ...
mausoleum.
History
The palace was built in the 19th century during the reign of
Mahmud
Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name (), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning ''praise'', along with ''Muhammad''.
Siam Mahmud
*Mahmood (singer) (born 1 ...
Bey
Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...
, by his son
Al-Husayn II who later gave it to M'hamed El Monastiri, a noble and a trader of Chachia (''chaouachi'').
During the
French occupation, it was an arts institute.
In 1930, it became the office of craft training and then a regional center of Tunisian arts in 1940.
In 2007, it became the main office of the tunisian center of translation.
[Jamila Binous (photogr. Salah Jabeur), Maisons de la médina de Tunis, Tunis, Dar Ashraf, 2002, 239 p. (), p. 73]
References
External links
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EL Monastiri
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