The last ring of mud
Sadus grew beyond Al-Balad one ring at a time: Al-Ras around 1310 AH, Jeddah in 1344 AH, Al-Manara in 1350 AH, then Masdah around 1360 AH.
After that came reinforced concrete: the first such building in Sadus in 1398 AH, then the planned Al-Marqab quarter in 1401 AH.
Mud with a skin of cement
The houses of Masdah are built of mud; in the quarters of that period, cement was added only as a thin skin on roofs and floors.
Many buildings in the mud quarters have now collapsed, leaving walls and the remains of palm-frond roofs as witnesses to what once was.
A house beside a palm
A small quarter that takes little time to see, but rewards you for slowing down: a ruined mud house with what is left of its palm-frond roof, a date palm beside it, and a silence broken only by the wind.
Here you see the last of what Sadus built in mud before its buildings changed for good.
