16.04.2021
Saudi Arabia
An abandoned 900-year-old mosque in Saudi Arabia has just reopened
It has been abandoned for almost 20 years. Now the Al-Atawlah Heritage Mosque in a small village of the same name in Saudi Arabia is open to the whole world.

The Al-Atawlah Mosque, located 30 kilometers north of the city of Baha, is located in the center of the historic village of Al-Atawlah. According to experts, it is one of the oldest mosques in the region.
Its architecture is most interesting, especially because of the windows of that time. The mosque was built of irregular stones with a roof made of trunks of juniper trees.

It accommodates about 130 worshippers and covers an area of about 300 square meters, with a prayer room, the ceiling of which stands on round wooden pillars. The mosque also has an open courtyard, a place for ablution, a water tank, and an outdoor staircase to the roof, by which the muezzin ascends to the roof to call for prayer.

The mosque has two entrances, one on the eastern facade and the other on the northern facade of the mosque.

One of the elderly villagers gave an interview in which he indicated the age of the mosque, adding that the restoration of the mosque was carried out in accordance with the traditions of the village, avoiding new technologies. The process has been a huge boost to the morale of the village, said a man named Abdulaziz Al-Zahrani.

The restoration and rebuilding of the mosque was carried out as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's project to restore the historic mosques in the Kingdom.