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.