The neo-Mamluk Awqaf Ministry Building was built in three stages in 1898, 1911, and 1929 by chief architect Mahmud Fahmi.

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Rabbat, Nasser. 1999. "Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century." Website of MIT Course 4.615 on Architecture of Cairo. http://web.mit.edu/4.615/www/handout19.htm. [Accessed February 14, 2007]