Saudi Gazette report
NAJRAN — AlQabil Village in Najran embodies a vibrant story that highlights a wealthy historical past and tradition. Its historical palm bushes embrace the sky, and its historical mud homes categorical the essence of authenticity and historical cultural identification.
The village, with its wealthy heritage, is centered round historical wells that when fashioned the arteries of life within the village, ranging from its jap borders with the “Al-Hussain” farms and lengthening to the borders of “Al-Jarba Village” on the western aspect. It’s bordered to the south by the “Al-Ukhdood” archaeological web site and lengthening to the banks of “Najran Valley” on the northern aspect, thus weaving an inventive canvas that embodies the depth of historical past and the authenticity of the place.
The pinnacle of the Najran Society of Antiquities and Historical past, Mohammed Al-Hatela, defined that the village of Al-Qabil is exclusive in its lengthy historical past, as the development of quite a lot of its mud palaces dates again greater than 350 years.
It accommodates greater than 200 mud homes, various in top and design, revealing the time intervals during which they had been constructed, and highlighting the great thing about the traditional structure of the Najran area. As well as, there are historical folded wells surrounded by historical palm bushes, which add a particular architectural magnificence and magnificence, and contributed to the classification of its villages as archaeological websites, essentially the most well-known of which is the village of “Al-Lijam,” which is taken into account one of many 34 heritage villages within the Najran area.
Al-Hatela identified that the village of Al-Lijam is distinguished by its mud palaces, which date again a whole bunch of years. It accommodates greater than 20 mud homes, various in top and design between historical and fashionable constructing kinds. It additionally preserves quite a lot of historical homes, often known as “Al-Duroob”, towering with their historic domes on the banks of the Najran Valley, which improve the city identification and spotlight the depth of the cultural heritage that abounds within the area and Saudi Arabia generally.
Mohammed Balharith, a resident of Al-Qabil village, emphasised the residents’ pleasure in, and keenness to protect and restore their mud homes, given their nice historic worth.
Balharith defined that the village of Al-Qabil embraces the well-known architectural kinds of mud buildings comparable to: “Al-Murabba”, “Al-Mashulq”, and “Al-Muqaddam”, which, together with the previous palm farms, kind a definite identification, characterised by the range of their geometric shapes and totally different sizes.
He reviewed the borders of the previous Thursday market and the wells and surrounding villages comparable to: “Al-Jadidah” and “Bayhan”, in addition to the names of the villages and their previous wells within the village of Al-Qabil, together with “Umm Al-Zawiya”, “Bahjah”, “Al-Saruf”, “Raqeebah”, “Al-Zujaj”, “Saeeda” and different well-known wells whose names carry historic connotations and are recognized to today.
