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Jeddah TV Tower

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The Jeddah TV Tower (برج تلفيزون جدة) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is a 250-metre-high (820 ft) television tower with an observation deck. The tower was completed in 2006.

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Jeddah TV Tower
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22331 , Al Qaryat
Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Non–Muslim Cemetery

The Non–Muslim Cemetery ("NMC" or Christian Cemetery) is a cemetery in Jeddah in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. It is located on the King Fahd Branch Road, in Jeddah's Al-Balad district.The cemetery contains more than 400 graves. A grey sarcophagus dedicated to the French explorer Charles Huber is located in the cemetery but it is not known if it contains Huber's remains. The French explorer Charles-Xavier Rochet d'Héricourt was buried at the cemetery in 1854. The British Consul in Jeddah, James Zohrab, identified 13 British graves, five Austrians, four French Vice-Consuls and two Jewish graves at the cemetery in 1878.A single Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) gravestone is in the cemetery, that of Private John Arthur Hogan of the British Army's Royal Army Service Corps. Hogan died on 3 June 1944 in the Second World War. Jean-Baptiste Lapadu-Hargues, a French soldier of the First World War is also buried in the cemetery. Cyril Ousman, the British Vice-consul of Jeddah who was shot and killed by Prince Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 1951 is also buried here.Recent burials have been rare and infrequent, and are mostly of Indian and Filipino children. Burials require the approval of the Mayor of Jeddah. The cemetery had reached maximum capacity by 2006.The cemetery is hidden from sight by high trees. There is no sign to indicate its existence. In a 2011 article for The Saudi Gazette, Matouq Al-Shareef reported that locals were reticent regarding the exact location of the cemetery and the cemetery guard would only provide information with the approval of the relevant local consulate. The supervision of the site is the responsibility of Western consulates in Jeddah.The cemetery was already in existence in 1541 to bury Portuguese casualties resulting from the Ottoman–Portuguese wars. The Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr made the first reference to a 'Christian Cemetery' in Jeddah on his 1762 map of the city drawn during the Danish Arabia expedition of the 1760s. Niebuhr's cemetery was located close to or at the exact location of the present cemetery, just outside Jeddah's city walls. The walls of the cemetery may have been built by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in the aftermath of the Ottoman-Saudi wars of the 1810s. The walls protected against vandalism, local dogs, and the occasional flooding by the nearby Red Sea. The cemetery was vandalised following the Battle of Jeddah in 1925.In 2018, the centenary of the end of the First World War was commemorated at the cemetery by representatives of foreign consulates in Jeddah who laid wreaths on the tombs of Hogan and Lapadu-Hargues.An attack on the cemetery using an Improvised explosive device injured several people during the annual Armistice Day commemorations on 11 November 2020.Commonwealth graves are managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Al-Balad, Jeddah
Al-Balad, Jeddah

Al-Balad (Arabic: البلد) is the historical area of Jeddah, the second largest city of Saudi Arabia. Balad can literally be translated as "The Town." Balad is the historic center of the City of Jeddah.Al-Balad was founded in the 7th century and historically served as the centre of Jeddah. Al-Balad's defensive walls were torn down in the 1940s. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Jeddah began to become wealthier due to the oil boom, many Jeddawis moved north, away from Al-Balad, as it reminded them of less prosperous times. Al-Balad had insufficient parking space for large cars. Its stores did not sell expensive designer clothing. Poor immigrants moved in place of the Saudi population. The municipality of Jeddah began historical preservation efforts in the 1970s. In 1991 the Municipality of Jeddah founded the Jeddah Historical Preservation Society to preserve the historical architecture and culture of Al-Balad. In 2002, US$4 million were earmarked for the preservation society. In 2009, Al-Balad was nominated by Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities to be added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, and it was accepted in 2014.In order to preserve the old structures within Al-Balad, the Historical Area Preservation Department was established in 1990, hoping also to help promoting cultural tourism in the country. The Saudi Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Salman, pledged $13.33 million to restore the old city in Jeddah as there were 56 buildings in urgent need of repair.Many Jeddawis had moved away from Al-Balad by 2007; the streets of Balad were still packed with people during the month of Ramadan. Around that year the Jeddah Urban Development Company was formed to restore Al-Balad.