"The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three
offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal’at Bu Mahir
fortress on the southern tip of Muharraq Island, from where boats used
to set off for the oyster beds. The listed buildings include residences
of wealthy merchants, shops, storehouses and a mosque. The site is the
last remaining complete example of the cultural tradition of pearling
and the wealth it generated at a time when the trade dominated the Gulf
economy (2nd century to the 1930s, when Japan developed cultured
pearls). It also constitutes an outstanding example of traditional
utilization of the sea’s resources and human interaction with the
environment, which shaped both the economy and the cultural identity of
the island’s society." -http://whc.unesco.org/
Thank you so so much to Kuya Edwin for completing my UNESCO postcards from Bahrain! You made me very happy to have this! ^-^
May your generosity be returned to you a thousand-fold!
He shared, "This building is the Ancestral House of the King of Bahrain..."
By the way, Kuya Edwin has an amazing Postcard Collection.
Should you want to help him out with his missing collection, feel free to keep in touch with him through his BLOG: http://3luenile.blogspot.com/
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