Al Tundobawi is a neighborhood of
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...
in
Makkah Province, in western
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
. Al Tundobawi is in the
Municipality of Ajyad Sub.
Al Tundobawi is an older suburb of Mekkah located between the Al Haram District and the commercial center of
Al Hindwiyah. Because of the proximity to
Hajj activities Al Tundobawi has a tradition of providing water to pilgrims and in recent times has become the site of numerous upmarket cafes, and has acquired numerous upmarket
hotel
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s.
Despite the new construction, as of 2018 the
neighborhood retains the urban fabric of a traditional
Medieval
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Islamic city. However, the
Saudi Kingdom have released several plans for the redevelopment of Mekkah, that critiques say will destroy much of the heritage of the city.
[Muddassar Ahmed]
Makkah: Vision 2030
March 21, 2017. Some of these plans would see the transformation of at least some of the medieval suburb into an area of 20
storey concrete
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towers
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Towers are specific ...
.
References
Neighborhoods of Mecca
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