BUILDING OF INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OF THE SUEZ CANAL MARINE, PORT SAID CITY (ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION DESIGN OF 19TH CENTURY)

SULEIMAN, Mohamed; AL-RASHIDI, Muhammad; Gad Al-Rab, Hani

doi:10.21608/ijaeur.2018.179727

BUILDING OF INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OF THE SUEZ CANAL MARINE, PORT SAID CITY (ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION DESIGN OF 19TH CENTURY)

Document Type : Original Article

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Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt

10.21608/ijaeur.2018.179727

Abstract

This Research includes an Architectural Study for the Building of International Company of the Suez Canal marine, in Port Said City. Port Said City birth certificate was drawn up on April 20, 18AD, corresponding to the Monday of the Spring Festival in the West, when Ferdinand de Lesses struck the first pickaxe announcing the start of work on the site, corresponding to the year 19 AH. The residents of the city were limited to the workers of the excavation site, and their number was about 120, and they were the vanguard of the hungry from all parts of the countries that lie on the Mediterranean from Europe, the Near East and Egypt, and they used to inhabit a group of tents that gathered around a wooden building to be called that camp Port Said was named in honor of Governor Said Pasha, who granted de Lessis the concession to dig the canal.

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