Al Doho

Al-Doho
حي الدحو
Neighbourhood
A mudbrick watchtower attached with a gate of the former city walls in ad-Doho, 2024
A mudbrick watchtower attached with a gate of the former city walls in ad-Doho, 2024
Country Saudi Arabia
CityRiyadh
RegionOld Riyadh
Government
 • BodyBaladiyah al-Batha
Area
 • Total
0.08151 km2 (0.03147 sq mi)
Language
 • OfficialArabic

Al-Doho (Arabic: حي الدحو), formerly Haara al-Hilla[1] (Arabic: حارة الحلة) and alternatively transliterated as al-Daho or al-Dahu, is a historic neighborhood situated within the former old city walls of southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located in the Qasr al-Hukm District of al-Batʼha sub-municipality.[2] It is the most preserved neighborhood in terms of heritage and the only quarter from the former walled town that is recognized by the Riyadh Municipality, meanwhile the rest of extinct settlements lie in the adjacent ad-Dirah district.

Bordered by King Faisal Road to the east, al-Thumairi Street to the north, al-Madinah al-Munawwarah Road to the south and Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim Street to the west, it is considered to be one of the last remnants of the old city neighborhoods.[3][4] The Royal Commission for Riyadh City (then The High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh) presented the plan to resuscitate the neighborhood in 2010[5] at the 2010 Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market and began its implementation 2013.[6]

  1. ^ Washmī, Aḥmad ibn Musāʻid (1993). الرياض: مدينة وسكانا،ً كيف كانت وكيف عاشوا (in Arabic). الوكالة العامة للإعلام، نبراس،.
  2. ^ Bsheer, Rosie (2020-09-22). Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-1258-7.
  3. ^ "حي الدحو - نواف ال الشيخ". www.al-jazirah.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  4. ^ Badran, Rawand (2020-02-11). "تحويل حي الدحو إلى مركز جذب للأنشطة التراثية". الهيئة الملكية لمدينة الرياض (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2022-08-07. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  5. ^ ".. وطرح مشروع حي الدحو آخر أحياء الرياض القديمة". صحيفة الاقتصادية (in Arabic). 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  6. ^ النواف, الرياض: فارس (2013-02-26). "إطلاق مشروع تطوير حي "الدحو" بالرياض". Watanksa (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-05-23.