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Rue Sherif Pasha
Alexandria, Egypt
Type: Other
Status: Closed
Open: 1886
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For recreation and distraction of these foreigners, there were founded English style clubs, with very limited access-.They possessed the usual facilities of this kind of clubs: chat rooms, reading rooms,billard, restaurant, gambling rooms, etc.
The Cercle Khédival was founded in 1886 , was installed on the first floor of the building of the Stock Exchange at rue Sherif Pacha nº2- Mohamed Aly square.The first President was the Baron Jacques de Menasce.
The Cercle Khédivial admited Egiptyan Princes, ministers,foreign diplomats, English officers (but not Egyptian) without entrance fee.
This cercle and Cercle Mohamed Ali were the most cosmopolitan in the city and in them the gambling was strong.
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The Cercle in the first floor of Bourse ( Stock Exchange)building
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Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Annuaire Egyptien administratif et commercial, 1891-1892". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Notes de voyage de Paris à Alexandrie, l´Egypt, La Palestine, 1895". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
"At 8 pm dinner at club de Khédivial with the Holland Ambassador, Russia Ambassador, somme English, the Marquis de Reverseaux. we spent the night in the veranda of the Cercle.."
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Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Indicateur Egyptian administratif et comercial,1897". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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CG166109
Added: 2016-07-08
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Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Guide pratique- Alexandrie,Le Caire,Port-Said et ses environs, 1907". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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