Palaces and Houses

2026

The Royal Residences of King Saud in Riyadh

After King Abdulaziz — may God have mercy on him — regained the city of Riyadh and settled there, he lived in the Dukhna area in Al‑Deira, where the old houses of Al Saud, built by Imam Turki, were located. These houses were in poor condition, so the King ordered...

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2026

King Saud’s palace in Al‑Qara‘a, Abha, Asir

King Saud ordered Sheikh Abdullah bin Thabit Al‑Sarhani, the sheikh of the Al‑Sarhan tribe in Al‑Qara‘a, to supervise the construction of the Abha palace in Al‑Qara‘a in 1956/57, after his return from a trip abroad and his inquiry about high-altitude regions in the Kingdom

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