Qaṣr ash-Shamsīyyah

Qaṣr ash-Shamsīyyah
Qaṣr al-Shamsīyyah, as seen in 1974
General information
Architectural style	Traditional Arab architecture Najdi urban patterns
Town or city	Riyadh
Country	Saudi Arabia
Coordinates	24°38′42″N 46°42′44″E
Completed	1930s
Demolished	1970s

Qaṣr ash-Shamsīyyah, from the south-east, as seen in 1974.

Qaṣr ash-Shamsīyyah (Arabic: قصرالشمسية, romanized: Qaṣr ash-Shamsīyyah) was a palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was built for Princess Nura bint ʿAbd al-Raḥman (1875–1950), the elder sister of King ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn Saud. The palace was north of the old town, not far from the Murabba Palace. Among the distinguished female visitors to the palace was Violet Dickson, the wife of H. R. P. Dickson. In his Riyadh map in The Arab of the Desert, Dickson referred to the palace as Qasr Nura, a name found often in other maps and documents. The building stood near the Riyadh Water Tower. By the late 1970s, the building was no longer occupied and had fallen into dereliction.