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Sambawalk Says: The usual Friday great mosque for Tarim. Behind this mossque is the worl renowed al-ahgaf manuscript Library.
Sambawalk Says: Tarim is famous for its innumerable palaces - a collection of approximately thirty mansions constructed between the 1870s and 1930s. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Hadhramaut’s merchant families grew rich from trade and investments abroad. The al-Kaf family...
Sambawalk Says: Al-Kafs Palace is Tarim's most flamboyan, apparently using a book of different architectural styles as a templatre, kind of project. It was beautiful in old days, havinf the mirror ceiling, decor pillars inside the palace. Going up to the 3rd level and get a spendid view of...
Sambawalk Says: Tarim’s famous al-Muhdar mosque is crowned by a 53 metres (175 ft) high, and recognized to be one of the tallest earth structures in the world. The minaret was designed by the local poets Abu Bakr bin Shihab and Alawi Al Mash’hûr. Completed in 1914, the al-Muhdar mosque is...
Sambawalk Says: Tarim also features the massive al-Kaf Library which is attached to the Al-Jame’a Mosque and houses more than 5,000 manuscripts from the region covering, religion, the thoughts of the Prophets, Islamic law, Sufism, medicine, astronomy, agriculture, biographies, history,...
Beautiful Stained Glass Windows
janiebaxter Says: Many of the old Palaces had beautiful Stained Glass Windows which, although not that old, are made more fabulous as the glass is incorporated into the building style of the area and compliments the carved lattice woodwork. Mostly the glass is cut into large pieces and the...
janiebaxter Says: Al-Ahgaf Manuscript library is located in the side street just behind the Al Mahdar mosque.The library has thousands of old and rare books and manuscripts on religion, medicine, law, astronomy and science. Many of the manuscripts are very brightly illustrated. It is well...
janiebaxter Says: Tarim has an important religious history and was a sunni centre of learning in the 17th to 19th centuries - there are 365 mosques in Tarim. Al Mahdar mosque has a minaret 62m high and the original mosque dates from the 10th century. The mosque has been rebuilt in 1915 and...
janiebaxter Says: The Al Khaf Family Palace is typical of the ruined palaces of Tarim, which are built of mud brick and therefore crumbling badly and in need of restoration.Most were built between 1900 and 1940, by wealthy families who left for Saudi Arabia in the early 1960’s. They have a...
TheLongTone Says: Tarim has been an important center of learning for a long time. The Al Ahqaf library was established in 1972 by gathering together a number of private libraries.The library contains some 6200 manuscripts, mostly dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and is...
TheLongTone Says: The minaret of this mosque is one of the tourist icons of Yemen. At fifty-odd metres high, it has a claim to be the tallest mud building in the world: it's rival for this distinction is the Great Mosque of Djemme in Mali. (precise figures are hard to find: I am researching...
flynboxes Says: In the city of Palaces which is also the former capital of the Hadramawt. Wandering the streets here and seeing palaces that combine arhcitecture styles from all over the world is a sight to be seen. In some ways I was more impressed with Tarim than Shibam in terms of the...
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Tarim is best reached from Sayun by collective taxi. These depart from a stand just beyond the small park in the centre of Sayun. The journey takes about forty minutes and cost 100 rials.
The taxis drop you a few hundred metres from the centre of Tarim. As is often the case, the taxi stand is next to a cluster of pleasantly shady tea stalls, so while you wait for the taxi (probably an ancient Peugeuot estate seating at least nine passengers) to fill up you can sit and have a -probably necessary- drink.
Written Jul 29, 2007
The ne plus ultra of impractical souvenirs
TheLongTone Says: If you're looking for something that will be completely impossible to get into your suitcase, why not go for a readymade sheet-metal minaret? Available in a variety of styles: an example of the almost febrile eclecticism of the architecture of the Hadramawt.
flynboxes Says: Gotta love the souqs in Arabia. I never seem to get enough of the colors and the smells...sounds like an acid trip right....Places like this would make Jerry Garcia trip in his grave.I'd liked the souq in tarim because it was not crowed and people were not falling over...
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Ahmad bin Isa al-Muhajir was a sufi prophet from Basra who died around 800AD and influenced the religion of the area.
His tomb lies at the foot of a mountain, about 10km from Tarim towards Seiyun. A holy woman is also buried here.
Non-muslims are not allowed in so you have to look at it through the wire fence.
Written Mar 13, 2008
A relic of British rule.... Tarim is the Hadramawt's second city, and is located at the Eastern end of the valley system. In historical terms it is possibly more important than Sayun, and has long...
Tarim was an important centre for the Kathiri family who ruled the area from Say'un, and it was the Hadramaut capital before Say'un. The Palaces were mostly built between 1900 and 1940, by wealthy......
Tarim has to be one of my more memorable places that I visited in Yemen. The ornate detail within the achitecture of the places the are scttered within the city was a sight to be seen. One of the...
Tarim is a historic town situated in the Hadhramaut Valley of eastern Yemen. Tarim is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley. An important...
Wadi Hadramawt and the Eastern Desert
I spent the day on my own wandering around Tarim, marvelling at the stunning palaces and exploring the ruins of wonderful fort-like homes long abandoned.
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