Statue of Saad Zaghloul
When leader Saad Zaghloul passed away on August 23, 1927, the Shiites of the masses of the Egyptian people attended an official funeral, attended by tens of thousands of Egyptians
and after the mourning ceremony ended, and how the ceremony ended for the nation's leader, and then the government decided to buy his house in Cairo which became a museum afterwards and build an official grave for the leader.
The government also decided to make two statues of the leader, one in Cairo and the other in Alexandria, and for this reason he brought the great sculptor Mahmoud Mohtar from Paris to make the statues.
The statuestory:
Mahmoud Mokhtar made the statues in two years from 1930 to 1932 and was performed by Italian artist Andrea Fissa. King Farouk inaugurated it in 1939 indicating that its bases are decorated with a statue on the sea side. The lady symbolizes Upper Egypt.