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El Menzah Sports Palace
Construction
Cupola of El Menzah


Location	Cité olympique, Tunis, Tunisia
Coordinates	36°50′10″N 10°10′58″E / 36.83611°N 10.18278°E / 36.83611; 10.18278
Capacity	5,500 (2005)
Opened	1967; 58 years ago (1967)
Architect	Olivier-Clément Cacoub
Tenants
Tunisia men's national volleyball team

El Menzah Sport Palace (Arabic: قصر الرياضة بالمنزه) is an indoor sports arena situated in El Menzah, a district in the north of Tunis. It is located in the heart of the Olympic City of El Menzah, near the Stade El Menzah.

History

Built on the occasion of the 1967 Mediterranean Games opened by president Habib Bourguiba, the arena was used primarily for the volleyball competition. The architect for the structure was Olivier-Clément Cacoub.

The 5,500-seat enclosure hosted matches of the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship as well as those of the African handball nations championships organized in Tunisia (1974, 1981, 1994, 2006).

Today, the arena usually hosts volleyball, basketball, handball, judo, fencing, wrestling tournaments.

The arena hosted many events and competitions:

Media related to Sports Palace of El Menzah at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Indoor arenas in Africa by capacity
Algeria	Hacène Harcha Arena (8,000) Miloud Hadefi Complex Omnisport Arena (7,000) La Coupole d'Alger Arena (5,500) Hamou Boutlélis Sports Palace (5,000)
Angola	Pavilhão Multiusos de Luanda (12,720) Pavilhão da Cidadela (6,873)
Egypt	The Covered Hall (16,900) New Capital Sports Hall (7,000) Hassan Moustafa Sports Hall (5,200) Port Said Hall (5,000)
Morocco	Salle Mohammed V (12,000) Salle Moulay Abdellah (10,000) Salle Ibn Yassine (5,000)
South Africa	WeBuyCars Dome (20,000) ICC Durban Arena (10,000) SunBet Arena (8,500) Bellville Velodrome (7,800) Good Hope Centre (7,000) Ellis Park Arena (6,300)
Tunisia	Salle Omnisport de Radès (17,000) El Menzah Sports Palace (5,500) Salle Bir Challouf (5,000) Mohamed-Mzali Sports Hall (5,000)
Other	Cameroon: Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex (5,263) Congo: Palais des Sports Kintélé (10,134) Gabon: Palais des Sports de Libreville (6,000) Ghana: Borteyman Sports Complex (5,000) Kenya: Kasarani Indoor Arena (5,000) Libya: Suliman Ad-Dharrath Arena (10,000) Mozambique: Pavilhão do Maxaquene (5,000) Rwanda: BK Arena (10,000) Senegal: Dakar Arena (15,000)
Under construction	Kinshasa Arena (20,000) Lagos Arena (12,000) Edo Arena (6,000) Martin Ngoko National Basketball Center (4,500)

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