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.

Houses and Alleys

Two-storey houses, narrow lanes lined with rooms that were probably shops, roofs of thin stone laid over timber: here everyday life in a Najdi village can still be read.