أماكن لها تاريخ.. قصر فؤاد باشا سراج الدين والمعروف باسم القصر الضائع

It is known that credit Foncie Aegean is the first real estate finance bank in Egypt, so it was easy to buy land from the Nile land and agriculture company in 1905 and commissioned the Italian engineer Carlo prampolini to design a house with balconies overlooking the Nile on this plot of land. The construction of the palace began in June 1906 and was completed in 1908. Mr. Byerly had already moved into the house in December 1908, but he was not destined to enjoy it; he died three days after moving in as a result of a heart attack. Serageldin Pasha Shahin bought the palace in 1930 as a gift to his wife Nabih hanem Badrawi on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage, after which the whole family moved from Al-mubtadeen to Garden City. Shahin Pasha died in 1954, but left the palace to his eldest son Fouad Pasha Serageldin, who continued to live there until his death in August 2000

The importance of the House does not depend only on its architectural value, but it is famous for the important political role played by the leader of the Wafd Party, Fouad Pasha Serageldin; the house was used as a secret headquarters of the Wafd Party. Fouad Pasha Sirajuddin lived in this house with his large family members where the adults lived in the main building while the boys and their nannies inhabited the annex building.

This house was not only the “family house” that brought the family together in the best and darkest times, but also witnessed all the family events of joys and funerals, as all the birthday parties of the boys and the famous tea parties organized by FouadPasha's wife Zakiya hanem took place there, and the House also witnessed luxurious musical evenings that the Lady of Arabic singing Umm Kulthum used to greet. Fouad Pasha Serageldin did not mind allowing the house to be used for filming some scenes from films, such as the film “Sunset and Sunrise”

The palace consists of two floors except the basement and was called the family house of the most beautiful palaces of Garden City and is located in front of the palace of Nahas Pasha and had a view of the Nile

He brought the most luxurious types of Italian marble to the palace and decorated the windows of the palace with stained glass, with a rich elevator and a marble fireplace

Unfortunately, it was not registered among the Antiquities, and one of the wealthy Qataris bought it for 180 million pounds, and this issue caused a great stir in the press