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The documentation of the Muqashqish Mosque and Luxor Police station was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-A-00-04-00018-00 and administered by Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project (EAC) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). Luxor Police Station was a U-shaped two storey neo-pharaonic building that was built sometime between the 1920s and 1950s. For obvious security reasons, access to the police station for documentation before its demolition was denied and indefinitely postponed pending its evacuation. Documentation took place as the building was being demolished, largely limiting the documentation process. A site of significance in the history of Luxor city, the mosque of Abu ‘Ali Isma’il al- Muqashqish, as well as the nearby Luxor Police Station, was documented by the office of Hampikian-Ibrashy under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). This was in response to plans to tear down both these structures to build the Avenue of the Sphinxes. Architects Nairy Hampikian & May El-Ibrashi documented the sites extensively through photo, manual, and digital architectural documentation methods. This was made possible with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (formerly the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities).
Type
Format
digital image
Identifier
ark:/21198/z1kx1pvb
Subject
Graffito Modern structures in historic sites Incarceration
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