Al Alam Palace

The Qasr al - ʿ alam (Arabic قصر العلم, DMG Qasr al - ʿ alam, Flag palace, also Qasr al- ʿ alam al - ʿ Amir of flowering flags Palace ') is a royal palace in Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman. The palace was built in the early 1970s on behalf of Sultan Qaboos by an Indian construction company. Today, the al - Alam Palace exclusively representative purposes, such as the reception of state guests or the annual Tea Party is a national holiday. When the Sultan resides in the capital region, he inhabits its nearby residential palace Bait al - Barakah in Sib: 29. The palace is surrounded by the forts of Mirani and Jalali, which have been built 16th century by the Portuguese.

Architectural History

The Bayt al - Alam Palace was the predecessor of the Qasr al - Alam. The Bayt al - Alam was built by Sultan Said ( 1791-1856 ). The exact period of construction is unknown. Visitors reported both in 1814 and 1824 that the palace had not yet been completed. In the first half of the 1890s the palace was renovated. 1895 Bayt al - Alam was occupied and ravaged by insurgents. Sultan Faisal, however, had no sufficient means to put it back in state. After the Second World War, Sultan Said moved his capital to the climatically favorable location Salalah, in order to escape the influence of the protectorate UK spatially. After 1958 no visit of the Sultan in the Bayt al - Alam is occupied. The palace was mothballed and no one was allowed to enter it. During this time, the palace fell into disrepair. At the time of the seizure of power by Sultan Qaboos in July 1970, consisted of the Bayt al - Alam Palace of four parts (the list is from east to west ): al- Harim ( the harem ), the main palace, Bayt al - Barzah ( barzah means as much as the vestibule or lobby in which the Sultan official meetings ( Majlis ) held or his subjects held audiences ) and another wing, which was prepared after the arrival of Sultan Qaboos in Muscat as a government agency. 87 f

1970 began the demolition work at the Bayt -al- Alam Palace. He was replaced in 1972 by the Anglo-Indian style held in Qasr al - Alam. For this purpose, the entire port area was torn between the al - Mirani Fort and the former British Embassy and integrated into the palace complex. In addition, the mid-1970s was inhabited by Indian traders district al - Banyan razed to the ground and also included with the system. The old houses, the souq and the Indian Hindu temples were replaced by modern administrative and residential buildings. There also the Diwan of the Royal Court now has his seat: 29 fu 39 f In the course of its first expansion in 1974 also erected in the 1890s, upper-class house of the Indian trader Ratansi Purshottam ( 1843-1904 ) has been removed, which of the size was forth with the old Bayt -al- Alam Palace comparable. 81

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