The Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, named after former foreign minister

Mohamed Khemisti Mohamed Khemisti ( ar, محمد خميستي; born 11 August 1930; died 5 May 1963) was an Algerian politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria for nine months, from 1962 prior to his assassination in 1963. He was married to Fatima ...

, is a major artery and public space in

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

Geography

The boulevard runs upwards from east to west, starting near the seashore and ending at the esplanade in front of the Government Palace. It is divided into three sections: a northern boulevard, a middle section of plazas and gardens, and a southern boulevard. The middle section comprises, going from east to west: the , a middle square, known as ; and on the slope, the , named after a

floral clock A floral clock, or flower clock, is a large decorative clock with the clock face formed by carpet bedding, usually found in a park or other public recreation area. Most have the mechanism set in the ground under the flowerbed, which is then pl ...

, which houses the

Memorial to the Liberation of Algeria The Memorial to the Liberation of Algeria is a brutalist monument on Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti in Algiers. It was designed in 1978 by Algerian visual artist M'hamed Issiakhem, as Algiers was preparing to host the 1978 All-Africa Games. The me ...

. The area is served by the Tafourah - Grande Poste station of the

Algiers Metro The Algiers Metro ( ar, مترو الجزائر العاصمة, french: Métro d'Alger) is a rapid transit system that serves Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Originally designed in the 1970s, it opened in 2011 after decades of delays due to ...

History

The boulevard was created on the location of former fortifications built by the French colonial regime following the destruction of the eastern ramparts of the city at the level of the fort of

Bab Azoun ''Bab Azoun'' ("Gate of Grief") is the name of a city gate of Algiers. The ''rue Bab Azoun'' which runs parallel to the ''boulevard de la Republique'' and crosses the ''rue Bab El Oued Bab El Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of A ...

and the extension of the urbanization in the direction of the suburb of Agha. It was then named for

Édouard Laferrière Édouard Louis Julien-Laferrière (26 August 1841 – 2 July 1901) was a French lawyer and authority in administrative law who held various senior administrative positions during the French Third Republic. He wrote a treatise on administrative law ...

, a distinguished jurist who had died in mid-1901 shortly after the end of his service as French Governor-General of Algeria. The grounds were acquired in 1900 by a private company, the , which developed it as they were made available by the military. The development included several public buildings, namely a customs administration building (completed in 1908), the

Grande Poste d'Alger The Algiers Central Post Office, ( ar, بريد الجزائر المركزي, french: Grande Poste d'Alger) is an office building for postal services located on Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, Alger Centre municipality in Algiers, Algeria. It was des ...

, and the Government Palace.

Gallery

File:Algiers Laferrière Boulevard and the "Dépêche Algérienne" Building (GRI).jpg, Northern side of the in the early 20th century File:Algers Square - panoramio.jpg, Upper section of the Boulevard viewed from the east, with the

in the foreground and the Government Palace in the background File:La Capitale Alger (Algérie) 01.jpg, Lower section of the Boulevard Khemisti in 2011

Notes

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