Discover Sadus
Heritage sites
The Fort and the Walls
Walls on all four sides, towers that narrow as they rise and one main gate called the Darwaza: this is how Sadus kept itself safe for centuries.
The Old Mosque
Unlike the Najdi mosques of its time, the old mosque of Sadus rises over two floors, and it was the heart of the village's religious and social life.
The Sadus Obelisk
In 1865 the traveller Lewis Pelly saw a column of dressed stone rising some twenty feet here. The column has gone, but its local name, Al-Manara, still lives on in Sadus.
Rock Sites
South Arabian letters on mountain rock, two inscribed stones in a university museum and a boulder one researcher calls the Map Stone: Sadus keeps its history in stone.
Natural sites
As-Sab' Al-Milaf, the Old Hajj Road
Pilgrims once travelled this way from Al-Yamamah to Makkah, and Sadus was one of the notable stops on the road.
Shajarat Al-Hajj
A tree whose name Sadus has never forgotten: Shajarat Al-Hajj, the pilgrim's tree. Its name recalls the pilgrim roads that passed the town, and its shade invites you to stop.
Jabal Fahrain
One of the mountains of Sadus, in a landscape framed by the Tuwaiq escarpment to the west and the twin Abkain hills to the east: a place where the view opens up and the pace slows down.
Darb Abkain
The main road between Sadus and Al-Uyaynah, passing the two small hills that Al-Hamdani described in the fourth century AH: the Abkain.
Neighbourhoods
Al-Balad Quarter
The Sadus we know began here: a fortified settlement that grew around a well dug out again, was torn down and rebuilt, and became the oldest, walled heart of the town.
Al-Badi' Quarter
A few houses in the middle of a farm, west of Al-Balad: Al-Badi' shows a life the people of Sadus lived among the palms rather than behind the walls.
Al-Ras Quarter
When Al-Balad grew too crowded for its people, building spilled out of the walls to the north, and Al-Ras was born.
Jeddah Quarter
A Sadus quarter named after a city on the Red Sea, to celebrate its capture and the safe return of the Al Muammar men who fought there.