Cairo in the Late 19th Century Through Gabriel Lekegian’s Lens

Gabriel Lekegian (1853–1920), also known as G. Lékégian, was an Armenian painter and photographer, active in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. Little is known about his life, but he left an important body of work under the name of his studio ‘Photographie Artistique G. Lekegian & Cie’.

With a large number of now historical photographs of Ottoman Egypt, he documented the country at the end of the 19th century. Among other collections, his photographs are held in the New York Public Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

These amazing photos were taken by Gabriel Lekegian that show everyday life in Cairo from the late 19th century.