The Algiers Central Post Office, (, ) is an office building for postal services located on
Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti,
Alger Centre municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Algiers
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...
,
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
. It was designed by architect
Jules Voinot and
Marius Toudoire and was constructed in 1910. It is Algeria's largest post office building, In 2015, the state turned it into a museum.
- La Grande Poste, monument emblématique d’Alger, devient un musée
(in French). Retrieved 18 October 2019.
Image Gallery
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See also
*Algérie Poste
Algérie Poste ("Algerian Post"; ) is the state-owned company responsible for postal service in Algeria. It is headquartered in Bab Ezzouar, Algiers.
History
Algérie Poste was created in 2002 following the reorganization of the Postal, Telegra ...
References
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Monuments and memorials in Algeria
Government buildings completed in 1910
Office buildings completed in 1910
Grande Poste d'Alger
Post office buildings
20th-century architecture in Algeria