The Opera of Algiers, in construction since November 2012 in the southwest suburb of the capital, will be delivered in July 2015. This has been announced by the Algerian Ministry of Culture in a communiqué. The opera house, the cost of which is estimated at 30 million euros, is a donation of the People’s Republic of China, which includes the study, the realization and the equipments of the future cultural building. It is planned that the Opera of Beijing will closely collaborate with the house in Algiers. The main hall has 1.400 seats.