The Jayer Anderson Museum, or the House of Al-Kiritliya, or the House of Al-Kiridliya, or Al-Jaridaliyah, or the Sabeel and the house of Muhammad ibn Al-Hajj Salem Al-Jazzar, which is located in Cairo, its story belongs to an English officer, Gayer Anderson Pasha, and in the coming lines we review the story and history of the house, which later became a museum visited by people from around the world.
Jayer Anderson is, as we mentioned in the previous paragraph, an English officer who completed his medical studies in London and was appointed to the Medical Department of the English Army in 1904 AD, then moved to the English Army service in Egypt in 1907 AD, and in 1935 AD, “Jayer Anderson” submitted to the Committee for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities to live in the two houses and that He furnishes them in the Arab Islamic style, and displays his archaeological collection of Pharaonic, Islamic and Asian antiquities, provided that this furniture and his collection of antiquities become the property of the Egyptian people after his death or when he leaves Egypt permanently. The committee agreed, according to what the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said, and as soon as he left Anderson's house in 1942, until the will and the two houses and what is in them were executed by the Arab Antiquities Authority, which made it a museum in the name of Gayer Anderson.
The house consists of two houses dating back to the Ottoman era in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, and they were combined into one house. Al-Hajj Muhammad bin Salem bin Jallam Al-Jazzar in the year 1041 AH / 1631 AD, and successive families lived in it until a lady from the island of Crete inhabited it.
Wed, Jan. 26, 2022
