Construction of 18 ministerial buildings in Egypt new capital to start in June

The construction of 18 ministerial buildings of Egypt’s new administrative capital would start by the end of the current month, the housing minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Thursday

The whole ministerial district is set to be completed within two years, Madbouly noted.

It is planned that the transfer of parliament, presidential palaces, government ministries and foreign embassies.

The yet-unnamed city is planned to consist of 21 residential districts and 25 “dedicated districts.” Its downtown is to have skyscrapers and a tall monument said to resemble the Eiffel Tower and Washington Monument.

The city will also have a park double the size of New York City’s Central Park, artificial lakes, about 2,000 educational institutions, a technology and innovation park, 663 hospitals and clinics, 1,250 mosques, 40,000 hotel rooms, a major theme park four times the size of Disneyland, 90 square kilometers of solar energy farms, an electric railway link with Cairo, and a new international airport at the site of the preexisting Wadi al Jandali Airport currently used by the Egyptian Air Force.