Jeddah has been added to UNESCOs world heritage sites Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah is an urban property extending over a surface of 17 hectares in the heart of the old city of Jeddah, the second largest Saudi city on the Read Sea coast. The nominated property is surrounded by a large buffer zone covering some 113 hectares. The old city of Jeddah represents a unique development of the Red Sea architectural tradition — a constructive style once common to cities on both coasts of the Red Sea, of whom only scant vestiges are preserved outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the nominated property — characterized by the imposing tower houses decorated by large wooden roshan-s built in the late 19th century by the city’s mercantile elites. Its strict association with the Muslim annual pilgrimage (hajj) gave Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah a cosmopolitan population where Muslims from Asia, Africa and the Middle East resided and worked contributing to the city’s growth and prosperity. whc.unesco.org/en/list/1361/
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:00:01 +0000
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