Grand Serail of Beirut

This article is about the palace in Beirut, Lebanon. For the palace in Aleppo, Syria, see Grand Serail of Aleppo.
The Grand Serail
السراي الكبير
The Serail Hill overlooking the Beirut central district
LocationBeirut, Lebanon
Coordinates33°53′45″N 35°30′03″E / 33.895926°N 35.500934°E / 33.895926; 35.500934
Area39,700 m2
(427,000 sq ft; 9.8 acres)
Built1853
Built forOttoman army
Architectural style(s)Ottoman new order
Governing bodyDirectorate General of Antiquities[1]
Grand Serail of Beirut is located in Beirut
Grand Serail of Beirut
Location of The Grand Serail in Beirut
Grand Serail of Beirut is located in Lebanon
Grand Serail of Beirut
Grand Serail of Beirut (Lebanon)
The Grand Serail in the early 1900s

The Grand Serail (Arabic: السراي الكبير, al-Sarāy al-Kabir; also known as the Government Palace) is the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon. It is situated atop a hill in downtown Beirut a few blocks away from the Lebanese Parliament building. The Grand Serail is a historic building, the most important of three Ottoman monuments on the Serail hill, the others being the Council for Development and Reconstruction and the Hamidiyyeh clock tower.[2]

  1. ^ Lebanese Ministry of Culture. "Ministère de la Culture" (ministerial) (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  2. ^ "The Grand Serail". The Quarterly. September 1998.