The Cretleiha House.
A house in Mrs Zainab about which the English wrote a book and James Bond lived in it.
The Creteilian House, the Gair Anderson Museum, the Butcher House, or the Safe House are named for the same place. The creative archaeological home is between the Sayyida Zaynab neighbourhood and the Caliph next to the Ibn Tulun Mosque, whose fame reached London without knowing anything about its beauty.
A mountain in Sayyida Zeinab and two houses in one house
Abd al-Qadir al-Haddad decided in 1540 AD to build a house on the mountain in  ​​Sayyida Zainab and al-Khalifah, a small mountain called Jabal Yashkar. The Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun was built on this mountain. Two successive houses were built, the house of Abd al-Qadir al-Haddad. After nearly a century, in 1642, Hajj Muhammad al-Jazzar built another larger and more beautiful house in architecture and decoration. The two men could not imagine building an important monument that would last for many centuries.
A woman from Crete who lives atop a mountain of Shukr
With the passage of years and at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the butcher’s house was sold to a woman from the island of Crete. The blacksmith’s house to a woman from Upper Egypt, Amna Bint Salem, and from here, the place was called the House of Kirtliya or a safe house. Still, time had affected the beauty of the two homes, and most of their places were demolished; and the government had. It decided to remove them during the expansion of the Ibn Tulun Mosque, but fate refused to see them cease to exist.
The English officer falls in love with an Egyptian burqa.
An English officer and doctor Asmaa Jayer Anderson used to pass in front of the house in his youth to see an Egyptian girl standing in the burqa in the mashrabiya, going crazy until he fell in love with her in an unspecified silence. After 29 years after he retired, he remained in Egypt, which he mentioned in his diaries shown in the London Museum. He loved the land to himself. In 1935 he heard about the Egyptian government’s decision to demolish the two homes, so he made an offer to her to restore the two homes and live in them and that he would supply the two homes with his collection of antiques and relics that he loved so that the house after his death would be a museum of these artefacts.
Anderson is renovating the house.
Thus, Anderson spent huge sums on restoring the two houses in the same previous architectural style and transferred all of the valuable antique pieces that he collected worldwide to be around him in the two homes. Still, every piece of furniture in the house is considered a valuable and distinctive effect.
Suleiman al-Kirtili, the Greek, the servant of the mausoleum of Sidi Harun al-Husseini
Gayer did not live alone in the house. Rather, he sought help from an old servant who used to work for the Cretan lady. He became Muslim and became named Basilman Al-Kretli and donated himself to serve the shrine of “Sidi Harun al-Husseini”, as it is called there. Thus, the two men became friends, and Solomon told many interesting stories, which most of them were Liar and untrue to Gayer, which greatly excited his imagination.
A book of Legends of the House of Cretan, issued in London
Through the tales of Solomon’s uncle, Jair wrote a book called Legends of the House of Cretan and a publication in London to achieve great success. The book tells several stories, some of them very imaginative, and some of them are adapted from the stories of the Qur’an. The event was changed to the House of Cretan, where he told the story of our master Abraham slaughtered our master Ishmael, claiming that they occurred in a mountain of thanksgiving in the house. He also claimed that this mountain was the mountain over which God spoke to Moses, peace be upon him, but the stories were not devoid of funny stories.
The king of the elves ordered the building of the house to be inhabited by a good snake.
In the book, there are stories of the king of the elves who ordered the butcher to build a house there so that his seven daughters could live in safety on a mountain of thanksgiving, as well as the story of the kind snake who saw the owner of the house beating his children about killing newborn snakes, so he broke a poisonous water pipe to save the man and his family and these fairy tales Filled with an oriental atmosphere, mashrabiyas, burqas, miniatures, and elves sparked the imagination of Westerners, making the book a bestseller of its time.
Jair dies and keeps his word with dozens of precious .artefacts
Thus, upon the death of Jayer in 1945, he had given up the house with its contents to the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, which turned it into a museum named the Gair Anderson Museum. It contains many furniture, sculptures, and antiquities that Jair placed in it, and it can be visited with just a quick walk to the Caliph neighbourhood.
James Bond lived in a Cretan house.
The popularity of the overseas home prompted the James Bond filmmakers to shoot the part of the spy movie Who Loved Me is one of the fantasy halls of the East House.