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Tippu Tip's House is a Zanzibar historic site associated with historic house, architecture.
This late-19th-century Stone Town townhouse was the residence of the Zanzibari-Arab merchant Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab al-Murjebi, known as Tippu Tip (c.1837-1905), a major figure in the East African ivory and slave trade. The house sits in Suicide Alley, in the Shangani ward, and is a fine example of a Stone Town merchant's palace, with an ornately carved wooden 'Zanzibar door' and wrought-iron veranda work that signalled the owner's wealth, plus black-and-white marble entrance steps. It remained a private residence until the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and was later subdivided into flats; it is not formally open to the public and has fallen into a state of disrepair.
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Stone Town, Unguja Urban Zanzibar Urban/West TanzaniaExact coordinates for this location have not been verified yet — this opens a map search for the address instead.
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