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Description
Property Name : House of Allegiance / Al Mullah House
Inventory No: –
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020
Country (State party): Saudi Arabia
Province: Makkah
Town: Eastern
Geographic coordinates: 25°22’36.04″N 49°35’5.94″E
Historic Period: 18th Century
Year of Construction: 1788
Style:
Original Use: House
Current Use: Museum
Architect: Unknown
Significance
It is considered one of the most important historical traditional buildings in the Eastern Province and is located in Al-Ahsa, in the middle of the Al-Kut neighbourhood in Hofuf, it was established by Sheikh Abdulrahman Bin Mohammed Bin Omar Bin Mohammed Bin Omar Al Mullah on 1203 H. At the time of Imam Abdul-Aziz Bin Mohammed Bin Saud the second rulers of the first Saudi state (1179-1218 H). This house has witnessed the arrival of King Abdulaziz to open AlAhsa on the night of 28/5/1331 H, where he lived and the people Al Ahsa inaugurated on obidience by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, (pbuh). So, The House of Allegiance is one of the most famous landmarks that witnessed the most prominent events before and during the unification of the Kingdom.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
State of Preservation
Well preserved.
References
Commission of Tourism and Heritage