The man who built two quarters
The first to build in Al-Ras was Mishari bin Abdulrahman Al-Muammar, around 1310 AH. He did not stop there: years later he was also the first to build in the Jeddah quarter.
So the story of Al-Ras starts with one man and one house, and the rest of the quarter grew around them.
Quarters of mud
Like Jeddah, Al-Manara and Masdah, Al-Ras is a mud-built quarter. Cement came later, only as a thin skin on roofs and floors.
Many buildings in these mud quarters have since collapsed, which makes what remains all the more precious.
Passages under wooden lintels
Walk slowly through Al-Ras: narrow passages under wooden lintels, walls crumbling beside others still standing, light slipping through gaps.
This is Sadus before restoration, as time alone has shaped it.
On the development map
The third phase of the town's development project turns to the heritage quarters beyond Al-Balad, among them Al-Ras and Al-Manara, together with the old palace and the Marqab of Sadus.
