Azm Palace (Hama)

35°8′2″N 36°45′13″E / 35.13389°N 36.75361°E / 35.13389; 36.75361

Azm Palace
قصر العظم
Upper courtyard of the palace
Alternative names	Qasr al-Azm
General information
Type	Palace, museum
Architectural style	Syrian
Location	Hama,  Syria
Address	400 meters (1,300 ft) south of the Hama Citadel
Completed	1742
Client	As'ad Pasha al-Azm
Technical details
Floor count	2

The Azm Palace (Arabic: بيت العظم, Bayt al-ʿAẓm)^[1] is an 18th-century Ottoman-era palace in Hama, Syria at the center of the city on the banks of the Orontes River, about 400 meters (1,300 ft) south of the Hama Citadel.^[2] Ross Burns, author of Monuments of Syria (1999), reportedly considers the Azm Palace to be "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria."^[3] The palace has been used as a regional archaeology museum since 1956.^[4]