Save the Heritage of Hassan Fathy
International Association for the protection and conservation of the heritage of Hassan Fathy
New Gourna village , Hassan Fathy’s pilot-project, is at present
abandoned and in danger. Although the theater and the mosque have been restored, many buildings are uncared for, others have been brutally altered and others yet, such as the boys’ school and the
village handcrafts’ hall, have purely and simply been torn down.Therefore, SAVE THE HERITAGE OF HASSAN FATHY took the initiative of a demand for international registration of New
Gourna as a Docomomo listed heritage ( See Docomomo International article).
Two registration demands to classify New Gourna as a National Heritage have also been submitted to the Pharaonic Antiquities Committee
and to the Coptic and Islamic Antiquities Committee.