Archeological & Historical Places

Bar Bar Temple

Barbar temples to the north of Saar, were discovered in 1954. its excavations were continued by a Danish expedition until 1962, by which time three superimposed temples had been investigated and dated around 2000 BC, at climax of the Dilmun civilization. Temples 1 and 11 are built on two superposed platforms and are connected to a monumental well and its spring, which apparently played an important role in the local cult. little remains of the third temple which includes a large square platform and was apparently larger than the two previous ones.

Beit Al Qur'an

Beit Al Qur'an (Arabic: بيت القرآن‎, meaning: the House of Qur'an) is an Islamic museum at Hoora, Bahrain. The museum was built to accommodate a comprehensive and valuable collection of the Qur'an and rare manuscripts, a concept which is unique in the Persian Gulf. All visitors are welcome, and the complex comprises a mosque, a library, an auditorium, a school and museum consisting of ten exhibition halls.

This great institution and its museum house an internationally celebrated collection of historic Quranic manuscripts from various parts of the Islamic world, from China in the East to Spain in the West, representing a progression of calligraphic traditions from the first century of the Islamic era to the present day.

Khamis Mosque

The Khamis Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الخميس‎; transliterated: Masjid al-Khamys) is believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain, built during the era of the Umayyad caliph Umar II. The identical twin minarets of this ancient Islamic monument make it easily noticeable as one drives along the Shaikh Salman Road in Khamis. It is considered to be one of the oldest relics of Islam in the region, and the foundation of this mosque is believed to have been laid as early as 692 AD. An inscription found on the site, however, suggests a foundation date sometimes during the 11th Century. It has since been rebuilt twice in both 14th & 15th centuries, when the minarets were constructed. The Khamis mosque has been partially restored recently.

Islam was propagated to Bahrain in the 7th century AD when Muhammad sent an envoy Al-Ala'a Al-Hadrami, preaching Islam to the Governor of Qatar and Bahrain at the time, Munzir ibn Sawa Al Tamimi.

Riffa Fort

Built by Sh.Salman Bin Ahmed ( al fateh) Al Khalifa, in 1812, Riffa Fort or (Arabic: قلعة الرفاع‎; transliterated: Qal'at ar-Rifa') it is now named ( Sh.Salman bin Ahmed Fort), in the Kingdom of Bahrain offers a splendid view across the Hunanaiya valley. With Riffa being home to the seat of government until 1869, this fort was strategically important in at the time.


Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, the present Amir's great great-grandfather, ruled Bahrain from 1869 to 1932. His house in Muharraq provides a glimpse of royal life in the 19th century, complete with architecture and wall carvings belonging to that era. It is also one of the best places to feel the effects of the wind tower

Arad Fort

Arad Fort (Arabic: قلعة عراد‎; transliterated: Qal'at 'Arad) is a 15th century fort in Arad, Bahrain. It was built in a typical Arab style.


Close to the Bahrain International Airport, the fort has been extensively renovated and presents a magnificent sight when it is illuminated at night.


It is believed that the fort was used by the Omanis during their brief occupation of Bahrain in 1800, and it is located adjacent to the strategic waterways between Bahrain Island and Muharraq Island.


Little is known of the fort's history, and there is no firm evidence of the precise date of construction, but comprehensive excavations have been undertaken in order to discover its past.


Bahrain Fort

The Bahrain Fort (in Arabic: قلعة البحرين‎, transliteration: Qal`at al-Bahrain, and also known as the Fort of Bahrain) is an archaeological site located in Bahrain. It is composed of an artificial mound created by human inhabitants from 2300 BC up to the 1700's. Among other things, it was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization, and served more recently as a Portuguese fort. For these reasons, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.


Qal`at al-Bahrain is a typical tell – an artificial mound created by many successive layers of human occupation. The strata of the 300x600-metre tell testify to continuous human presence from about 2300 B.C. to the 16th century A.D. About 25% of the site has been excavated revealing structures of different types: residential, public, commercial, religious and military. They testify to the importance of the site as a trading port over the centuries. On the top of the 12m high mound, there is the impressive Qal`at al-Burtughal (Portuguese fort), which gave the whole site its name, qal`a, meaning fort. The site was the capital of the Dilmun, one of the most important ancient civilizations of the region. It contains the richest remains inventoried of this civilization, which was hitherto only known from written Sumerian references.


Shaikh isa Bin Ali Al Khalifa House

Is located in the center of the old capital of Bahrain (Muharraq City). It was built at the end of the 18th century by Shaikh Hassan Bin Abdulla Ahmed Al Fateh during the rule of his father, Shaikh abdulla Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa. The house is characterized by its huge walls and small doors designed to protect them from the heat in summer and the severe cold in winter. 


 Al Jasra Centre

The traditional crafts and industries are regarded as a cultural product of the live interaction  processes between the local communities on account of the cultural visions and values and natural habitat on the one hand and between them and the other communities on the other hand. Hence, these traditional crafts and industries are not only a manifestation of civilization, but also its tool for the expression of the society’s culture and authenticity as well as a true component of the collective cultural memory that incarnates the life features and the stages through which the society has passed.

Conservation and promotion of the conventional crafts and industries have grown into a popular demand that many countries seek to satisfy as confirmation of their national identity with all the uniqueness  of their peculiarities and characteristics which are a source of their pride and self esteem. In its endeavor to preserve its cultural heritage, the Kingdom of Bahrain represents one of those countries which have become keenly aware of the roles that these crafts and industries may play in determining its national identity and highlighting its cultural heritage which is linked to its present as well as its past as a country where the past, present and future ties combine in one contemporary entity characterized by its uniqueness.

Since the type and nature of the crafts and industries in any society are influenced by the environment and its primary components, as well as the life style adopted in the traditional industries for which Bahrain is famous and are closely associated with and linked to the basic needs of the individual in a community which relies on the sea, agriculture and commerce for his living and whose raw substance are derived from the materials available in the environment, and since the environment has played a remarkable role in determining the types of industries and crafts that the Bahraini person engaged in in the past,

Therefore, this industry is characterized by sheer variety in order to fulfill the requirements of the various activities that the Kingdom had in abundance throughout its history, including pearling, diving, fishing and agriculture in addition to active trading activity which has attracted large numbers of the people of the neighboring countries and regions who were looking to earn a living. Hence, many of the Bahraini people got involved in these industries which spread inside and outside the cities. The crafts are now pursued in markets which are named after them, such as the blacksmith markets, Tanakah market, the goldsmith market, the gypsum market, Tawawish markets and other names, besides other markets which are held outside the cities in some of the open yards and fields which attracted the farmers and the environmental craft artisans on certain days. For this reason, the markets came to be known by the name of the day on which they are held, such as Wednesday market and Thursday market.

Other villages became famous for some of the crafts practiced in the agricultural environment, such as the textile industry in Bani Jamrah village, basket weaving in Karbabad village, pottery in Ali village and AlSaffah in  Jassrah village, while Manama and Muharraq cities are famous for vessel industry and related tools.  

The legacy left by these industries is testimony of the skill and precision of the Bahraini artisan in the production of substances which meet the basic needs of the community and which bestows on the artisan a prominent social status. This has prompted the artisans to pass on their craft to their sons and to teach them the craft fundamentals and secrets. Thus, these crafts passed on through the successive generations of the families and became a source of pride to us to the extent that the family names became linked to the craft that the family is engaged in such as the Haddad, Al-Hayky, Al-Gallaf, Al-Jassas and other family names.

However, in the light of the momentous changes which affected the society’s lifestyles and the fast spread of the foreign consumption pattern and its social penetration of the various social groups, the traditional industries have seen visible retreat because the sons now shy away from engaging in them. The remaining artisans are now on the verge of departing our world which threatens these industries with extinction and death.

Hence is the attention that the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain, represented by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, is paying to the promotion of these industries by means of  suitable policies that seek to provide the necessary mechanisms in the light of existing circumstances and also seeks on the other hand to pool the resources and efforts and channel them in a manner consistent with the objectives sought.

Within this framework, an artisan center has been established that is concerned with reviving and breath the breath of life in the traditional crafts which are looked at as part of the country’s legacy and heritage. The center was in effect inaugurated by His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Sulman Al Khalifah, the Prime Minister in the year 1991 in Al-Jassrah village.

Under the roof of this center, the Bahraini artisan practices his profession, while holding fast to his tools and implements he inherited. The carpenter is still using his chisel and saw for producing beautiful pieces of furniture, engraved boxes and wooden vessels. The weaver is working on his manual implement to produce intricately designed fabrics. The potter is still using his hands and legs to run his table to turn incense burners, jars and glazed utensils. All of this is combined with a contemporary spirit which is reflected in the modern designs produced with state of the art computer software which the artisan uses to advance his craft for consistency with the spirit and demands of this age.

Al-Jassrah Center for Handicrafts is considered to be one of the most important official agencies which tasked themselves with the development of the handicrafts and industries and the artisans involved in them in the Kingdom in general. The center management has allotted great attention to the components of training and marketing. The center organizes summer courses for school students as well as for any person who wishes to enroll in these courses as a fist step in the various handicrafts and industries as part of the project “Preservation of the manual craft and industries”. The more  important phase is the establishment of a specialized craft training academic center, which is the first of its kind in the region. It will serve the sons of Bahrain and the area. The center has actually been built on the land adjacent to Al-Jassrah Center and its hopefully scheduled for opening in the year 2008.

My CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details:

Name:             Huda Mohammed 

Date of Birth:  1977                   

Nationality:     Bahraini

Qualification:

2010- Now       Higher National Diploma in Business Information Technology - Bahrain Training Institute

2007- 2009       National Diploma in Computing - Bahrain Training Institute

1999- 2000       First Diploma in Garment Design and Production - Bahrain Training Institute

1992-1995        Certificate Secondary School - Manama Secondary School 

Courses:

3/2/08-24/4/08       Certificate in Graphic Design - Bahrain Training Institute

3/4/07-29/5/07       Practical English Certificate Course - Experts Training Institute 

1/3/07-28/5/07       Certificate in Computer Flash - AL Hayat Institute

1/1/07-5/3/07         Certificate in Computer Publisher - AL Hayat Institute

7/12/06-13/2/07     Certificate in Hardware & Software Maintenance Program - Modern Institute                            

26/11/05-28/11/05 Certificate in the Secrets of Strategic Marketing - Candian Training Center

22/11/05-24/11/05 Certificate in High Impact Customers Service - Candian Training Center

15/5/05-12/9/05     Fast Food Certificate Course - Baisan Institute of Hospitality Management

2/11/04-27/2/05     Certificate in International Computer Driving License - JAF Media Center

24/6/97-7/1/98       Certificate in Children Teaching - Delmon Academy

Position held:

    

I trained for 3 months as children teacher in AL Addin Kindergarten School in 1997

I worked for 6 months as cashier in Jasmi's corporation in 2005

I trained for 2 months as secretary in AL Kawther Society for Social Care in 2010

Skills

Interpersonal skills:  Good Communication Skills

Computer skills:       MS Office 2003-2007-2010, HTML

Languages:               Fluent Arabic, good English   

Additional Skills:     Valid driving license

 

Sheikh Ali Mosque

 Sheikh Ali Mosque in Abu Saiba pictures

By : Zainab & Huda ( Abu Saiba 7 Dec 2010 ) 

Arish old building ... Patterns and constructive way

Bahrain was in the past, same as any other rural area where the industry abounded houses of El Arish, mainly manufactured products from palm fronds and tree trunks we have dealt with in the previous chapter the tools and different professions, which required the construction of the houses, remained to discuss how to build these houses? Or exactly what are the different styles of the old houses and their uses.


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Types of old houses

Old houses vary in size and method of construction and building materials used as well as the quality of the props used and we will try here to clarify the most important models, which were scattered houses and we will begin the end more a simple and complex.

1 - Flyer

Are the simplest buildings that are constructed using parts of the palm which is about the umbrella is made up of four lists of words on the trunks of palm fronds and the roof of the aspects Vtkon open, is not considered a separate house, but an extension attached to houses.

2 - Impotence

Impotence is a word used by the public before any room simple wooden house built by side or placed over the house where the bathroom or chicken and some is used as an alternative word for word the barn, and has received word in the dictionaries of the Arabic language meaning the barn, but it also may be used for other purposes. Summarizes our dissuaded by Mohammed in his quest «words immediate timber in the Arab Islamic civilization» as stated in the books for impotence Language:

«I usually catch in front of or behind the housing coop-strong wood and tree branches broken become either uses the Adamic or the incarceration of animals in protected it, as you this barn wood, called the word impotence (plural: Ann), in repelling the currents strong wind for housing; and this is living and Rod, too, in the hair, however, where he says:

Al is the curse of the pole Zazatha wind and rain

The degree of past, the people in Bahrain to raising chickens and pigeons in the house, and until recently spread usually building «Enein» or «Ann bathroom» above the houses, they took then in decline, and may be extinct in these days, even if the word «damn» had been misrepresented and replaced with the word other is becoming Formwork General says «Formwork bathroom». And Sandaka idiomatically is a single room not attached to anything, and is divided from the inside, in the past, made of wood, probably so named in analogy with the Fund, they fund large, they are room «Msndqp» has widened the public in the use of the term until Ohloha replace the words of other was used in the past indicate the types of old houses.

3 - cottage

Is a simple construction is built from the fronds, and often a temporary building, which is built in, often from the fronds of palm leaves and sometimes not where the strength of walls tend to some Txoaid. In spite of the broadly used the word «straw» in many countries of the Arab world but it is not contained in dictionaries of the language used when the general sense, Vashp as contained in the dictionaries of the language was meant Palm fronds few small head. Word came from the Arabs in the:

«The cottage from the trees minute bars and was told is Muftrqp branches that are not the disappearance of what is behind the cottage, also from the palm of small head few fronds and combine Ashshash has nested Palm Say fronds sounded the bottom, and said to her cottage and said tree hut minute bars for cynical descent»

It seems that the word hut had been borrowed later to mean the simple houses built of Palm after the public began to circulate more word to launch later on any simple run-down building is built of wood. The word «straw» lived among the public for a long time, longer than any word for another in order to relate proverb repeated by the children is the «or Kcp overthrew the cottage», with the passage of time and change the conditions attached to the word «straw» Bait chickens or pigeons in particular, was then replaced by the word Sandaka.

4 - El Arish

The word «pole» means the house that was built from palm fronds and trunks. The Arabs were calling the name of the «throne» the houses built of palm fronds and trunks of palm trees and a collection of pole, and thrones are gathering combination. Summarizes our dissuaded by Mohammed in his research that came from El Arish in the books Language:

Took advantage of the Arab community Pfterth ignorance, in particular the biological material - for example - in the construction and building tents and wooden umbrellas (House of Al Arish) we obviously from palm fronds based on logs of wood and put Alosmam above, and this is illustrated by our poet, however, saying:

It remains anticipated turn the tip Kaaric people Althelp demolished


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How to build and types of El-Arish

There are many ways to build the El Arish and is selected model Arish from a constructive way, but mostly be built Arish to build the structure first, which consists of the lists are often from the trunks of palm trees or Jandal, does not use the trunk as a whole to be a list, but divides the trunk of the four sections of longitudinal Then focus these lists by placing them vertically in holes in the ground and connecting them using a cross pillar made of fiber ropes. The walls of El-Arish or aspects of releasing the name of the public «Rada», and is used for the manufacture of any Alradp either Palm «Rada fronds» or may be used palm leaves are called then «Rada Sven». And the ceiling is made of palm leaves or fronds tied with ropes and covered attribute. Usually have a ceiling in the form of a semi-circle to the top of any arch.


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Models and patterns of Al-Arish

Model defines the way that the children of El-Arish is the most important types of the throne the following:

A - pole Rada fronds

And is the one that makes all aspects of the Palm

B - pole Rada Sven

And is the one who made all of its aspects Alzfn (ie, palm leaves)

C - pole teeth or Iasi

And El Arish, which is a bench (or Abu valid). Bench seat and is built around El Arish from the inside at altitudes of up to about seventy centimeters. This bench is used as the basis proves Kchrisi columns and at the same time, a pioneering idea of where the furniture out of the construction.

D - pole Mguenbr

This is the most beautiful forms of Al-Arish, where the throne is surrounded by the roof of El Arish in all its aspects Baknbar juxtaposed beautifully. And Alqnbar form Qnbarp is the intensity of the fronds, palm leaves arranged in a particular was used the intensity of the wicker Ksiraj to catch fish at night and know the way on behalf of Alqnbar, and there are celebrations of the end of zero and who knew the same name and to use the torch itself. The origin of the word from Arabic, the word «Kabbar» means «SE hunter night»

And - a two-story pole

And built forms and different ways, it is sometimes be attached to Arish Arisha or to be autonomous. If a supplement Baric Vtkon two Mlasqtin to pole over some used the lower reservoir while the upper is known as «Balniclp» Room on the second floor have holes on each side «and used to sit».

5 - Almarc

It is built like Arish completely but it is built above the roof of the house built of stone, plaster, and this model appeared with increasing building stone houses and the need to replace the open in the summer.

6 - Alberstj

And is building a huge base and has a rectangular shape, built from palm leaves and gabled roof, which gives it a distinctive form, and have Brstj one entrance and some windows sometimes works and sometimes built with the pole. The building Alberstj it needs skilled workers to professionals. And in the fifties of the last century some famous men of the village of Bani Jamra Alberstj building, and had chosen the prospector Archaeological «Jeffrey Baby» Ebeno Alberstj to the Bahrain Fort.

7 - Aging

A house built with gravel and plaster walls and Alfruc and mud, while the roof is built at saw mills or Aldngel «Alguendl» and palm leaves and then placed upon the attribute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am standing near plam