The objective of this research is to create a comprehensive risk assessment framework for the restoration stage of heritage building rehabilitation in Egypt. Forty-two primary risk factors were gathered from various sources including literature, site visits, and stakeholder interviews conducted during the restoration stage of the Amr ibn al-Aas mosque and Kom el-Shoqafa Cemetery in Alexandria. An online questionnaire was created, and the data was analyzed utilizing IBM SPSS version 20. The top risk factors identified were collapse of the heritage building due to design/construction errors, falling the labors from heights, falling materials due to the building's structural weaknesses and old artistic components, causing irreparable damage while trying to restore the Heritage building, collapse of scaffolding used, fire accidents of timber buildings, assigning design tasks to unqualified designers, insufficient awareness and lack of qualifications, skills, and experience of the contractor, using inappropriate methods, selecting unsuitable materials, inadequate qualification and supervision of the owner's engineer, lack of skilled labor, poor communication between design team & construction team, poor quality control, lake of installing safety measures, lack of availability of the proper materials, using low quality materials, excavation and using heavy equipment near the rehabilitated building, lack of understanding the project scope and objectives by the contractor, and inability to determine the accurate scope of work