Palace
Foumban Royal Palace
Cameroon · 20th century
- Fame
- Hidden gem
- Founded
- 1917
- Heritage status
- monument of Cameroon
- Location
- West
- Coordinates
- 5.73291°, 10.9013°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q16510034
- Links
- Wikimedia Commons
Description
The Foumban Royal Palace is a historical building in the city of Foumban, capital of Noun. It is the seat of the Kingdom of Bamum, where the Chief-Superior of the peoples of the valley of the East bank of the Noun resides.
The royal palace of Foumban, where the king of the Bamum still resides today, was built in 1917. The Palace Museum tells the history of the dynasty of the Bamum kings from 1394 to the present day, with information on the most famous of the Bamum kings, Ibrahim Njoya, who died in 1933 and who created a writing system at the end of the 19th century called Bamum script.
Text adapted from “Foumban Royal Palace” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
In the rankings
Foumban Royal Palace ranks #7,362 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking. Founded 1917, one of 175 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. See how Cameroon compares in the castle statistics.