Gayer anderson museum

This is a wonderful art museum that is located in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood adjacent to the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo. It was named after Major R. Gayer Anderson Pasha, who resided at the house from to with permission from the Egyptian government. His house in the museum is considered the best-preserved example of the bewitching 17th-century architecture that was left in Cairo and also for the incredible objects, carpets, furniture, and everything inside.

Robert Gayer-Anderson, known as 'John' to his friends, was like many others of his generation, an Orientalist who became fascinated by and romanticised the Arab way of life. For Gayer-Anderson, it was Egyptian culture in particular that he fell in love with and he described Egypt as 'the land of his adoption'. He had trained as a doctor in England, graduating in , but received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps the following year and was seconded to the Egyptian Army in where he eventually became Egyptian Recruiting Officer. His interest in Egyptian culture was undoubtedly sparked during this time with the army in Egypt, and later as Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner.

Ibn Tulun Mosque is the oldest mosque built in the city and the largest mosque in terms of land area. The Mosque Space is 2. Some architectural historians said the mosque was the first building to use t pointed arch, years before the European Gothic arch. Another unique feature of the mosque is its use of an exterior enclosure wall.

Geyer Anderson Pasha was an English officer who studied medicine in London. He was assigned as a doctor for the English military in and was deployed in Egypt in In , Geyer Anderson submitted a request to the Assembly of Preserving Arab Antiquities to live in the two houses and to furnish them in Islamic-Arabic style. He proposed to gather a collection of pharaonic, Islamic, and Asiatic antiquities.