Type Commercial Floor count 19 Floors 19 Construction started October 2007 | Completed Opened 10 June 2012 Architect Ssentoogo & Partners Opened 10 June 2012 | |
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Similar Rubaga Cathedral, Church House - Uganda, Movement House, Kampala Hilton Hotel, Kawempe General Hospital | ||
Mapeera House is a building in Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda.
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Map of Mapeera House, Kampala, Uganda
Location
The skyscraper is located on Kampala Road, the main business street in Kampala's central business district.
Overview
Mapeera House is named after Father Siméon Lourdel (1853–1890), also referred to in French as Mon Pere. The Baganda changed that to Mapeera. He was the first Catholic Priest to set foot in Uganda in 1879. Mapeera House serves as the headquarters of Centenary Bank, the fourth-largest bank in Uganda, and the second-largest indigenous commercial bank in the country, by assets. The bank also maintains its main branch at this location. The building consists of 17,000 square metres (180,000 sq ft) of office space, most of it available for rent to qualified tenants, raising income for the bank. The nineteen-storey building also has 16,000 square metres (170,000 sq ft) of underground parking space, enough to accommodate up to about 100 vehicles.
History
The idea to construct Mapeera House was the brainchild of the Late Cardinal Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga (1914–1991), the second Ugandan to be consecrated Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He died before his dream was realised. In October 2007, after ten years of planning, a ground-breaking ceremony was held at the present location, presided over by Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala. Roko Construction Limited, a Ugandan construction company was contracted to construct the building at an estimated cost of approximately US$30 million (USh75 billion). The building was commissioned on 10 June 2012, by Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda. At completion, the construction costs had increased to US$40 million (UGX:100 billion).