New City Courthouse

The New City Courthouse (Arabic: دار قضاء المدينة الجديدة dār qaḍā’ al-madīnah al-jadīdah) is a two-story neoclassical courthouse located on Tishreen Square in Ibrahimia, Nasser City, opened in 1979. The New City Courthouse has hosted the Nasser City Court of Appeals since its establishment in 1990, before which it hosted the now-defunct Nasser City Civil Claims Court. The building was designed by Palestinian architect Mahmoud Tamimi in 1976 and constructed by New Urban Developments between 1977 and 1979.

The courthouse's main floor sits exactly one metre above ground level, its front entrance accessible from the street via an outdoor 16-step stone staircase. In addition to the main floor and the floor above, the New City Courthouse also has a full-sized basement which is 2.5 metres below street level; the side entrance of the courthouse enters at basement level at the base of a half-covered outdoor staircase, and the back of the courthouse features a smaller, sideways staircase leading up to the main floor, as well as a ramped security garage door allowing official vehicles access to the nine-cell jail occupying the basement's rear half. The basement jail is rarely used nowadays, as very few trials heard by the Nasser City Court of Appeals feature defendants on remand or serving an incarceration sentence.