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Tiring Historic Building- Travel Tips What to See, How to Plan & Tours: Historical & Cultural; Egypt; 5 Reviews

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The Tiring Historic Building, completed between 1912 and 1913 in Cairo’s Attaba Square, was one of the earliest department stores in the region, designed by architect Oscar Horowitz and inspired by the retail grandeur of Paris’s Galeries Lafayette. Commissioned by Victor Tiring, a merchant from Constantinople, the building stood at the intersection of the Mousky district and the European-style Ismailia quarter, offering a four-story retail space that featured luxury imports from across Europe. Although operations ceased by 1920 following World War I and British sequestration, the structure remains a rare example of early 20th-century commercial architecture in Cairo, notable for its scale, ornamentation, and role in shaping modern consumer culture in Egypt.

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Reviews of Tiring Historic Building

Anton Youssef

5
Reviewed: 2023-08-12

Historic building with beaten architectural features
Mustafa El-Tayeb

4
Reviewed: 2023-03-27

One of the most beautiful architecture in Cairo, Though it's one of the most forgotten places in this huge city! known as the first Mall in the middle east & egypt, was built by Austrian Architect Oscar Horowitz for The Austrian Business man: Victor Tiring who choose its place in 1910 & started the work in the building in the year 1913. now, the building is being managed by ElShams association, & it's one of only 3 Buildings around the world have its unique architecture.
Mahmoud Habeeb

4
Reviewed: 2020-08-08

Visible slightly to the north from the narrow overpass that links Opera Square to Azhar Street is a corner building with four kneeling Atlas statues lifting a glass globe. This was the Tiring Department Store, one of Cairo’s many houses of early twentieth century shopping and consumption of modern goods. The store was founded in 1910 by Victor Tiring, an Austrian merchant born in Istanbul who specialized in Turkish tailoring. The Tiring family had built its first store in Vienna in 1882. The building was designed by Oscar Horowitz, a Czech architect who studied in Vienna and who designed similar shopping destinations within the Austro-Hungarian sphere. The Tiring Store in Cairo was completed in 1912 and when it opened it was the city’s premier shopping destination for imported luxury goods. With the events of World War I, the British occupation in Egypt had deemed all Austrians and Hungarians as enemies and forced their departure from Egypt. The Tiring department store was only in business for few years and its business was interrupted due to pressure from the colonial administration which forced it into liquidation by 1920.
Ryter M.V.

5
Reviewed: 2020-03-05

If you are interested in architecture why not
Gamal Ahmed

5
Reviewed: 2019-12-17

Architectural masterpiece, one's of the fine art building in Cairo, Egypt