Historic site · Egypt
Maq’ad of Mamay al-Sayfi (Bayt al-Qadi)
مقعد الأمير ماماي السيفي · بيت القاضي
The surviving raised loggia of a 1496 Mamluk palace just off Al-Muizz Street, later used as the Ottoman judge’s court.
Where it is
30.0491, 31.2622
Why go
Amir Mamay al-Sayfi, keeper of the sultan’s wardrobe and later cupbearer under Qaytbay and his son, built a palace here in 1496; only its grand maq’ad, or raised loggia, still stands. Five arches crowned by a wooden canopy rise above the ground-floor storerooms, and the summer hall behind them keeps a beamed wooden ceiling with gilded and coloured decoration. In the Ottoman period the judge and his court occupied it, which is why it is also called the judge’s house, Bayt al-Qadi.
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