About
The Central Postal Museum is located in the middle of the “General Post
Office” building, as it was called in the French colonial era, the most prestigious district of the Algerian capital, where the streets of the martyrs “Larbi Ben M’hidi” and “Didouche Mourad” (formerly Islay and Micheli) meet, opening onto the vast garden of the Government Palace, which... It descends with its towering trees down the mountain, until its roots touch the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
The construction of the General Post Office in the form of a luxurious palace began in 1910, and its construction was completed after three years spent by the builders and architects coordinating the building’s lobbies, columns and ceilings, which shine with an elegant Arabic-Andalusian decoration, so that the Central Post Office building gradually transformed into a unique architectural masterpiece.
Its architecture is vibrant. With the heartbeat of the city, where the engineer Marius Tudward was inspired by the Arab-Islamic architecture in constructing this elegant palace. The idea stemmed from the attempt of the Governor-General of Algeria at the beginning of the twentieth century, Charles Gunnar, to settle the buildings to make them a crossing bridge to the hearts of Algerians who were loath to deal with the administration. Colonial buildings with a purely European style It is noteworthy that Junnar encouraged the revival of Islamic architecture, and approached the traditional intellectual class, and encouraged them to carry out their ancient mission, such as holding lessons in mosques and the like. Junnar supervised the opening of the Tha’alibi School in 1904 AD. Next to the shrine of “Abd al-Rahman al-Thaalabi” in the Kasbah neighborhood in the Algerian capital, he was guided by the idea of constructing buildings in the form of palaces with an Andalusian and Moorish architectural style, perhaps through this he would find a way into the hearts of “the people,” which is the epithet that was given to the indigenous people in the colonial era of Algeria. Which extended for a century and thirty-one years as a settler colonialism with all its elements and descriptions. At that time, some buildings were built that served the idea of getting closer to the people by devising local and Islamic architecture, such as the governorate building (currently the state) located at the seafront, or some schools scattered here and there in the various neighborhoods of Algiers