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Description
Property Name: Ushaiqer Heritage Village
Inventory No: –
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020
Country (State party): Saudi Arabia
Province: Riyadh
Town: Ushaiqer
Geographic coordinates: 25°20′33″N 45°11′0″E
Historic Period: Historic Site
Year of Construction: –
Style: –
Original Use: Settlement
Current Use: Settlement
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The town of Ushaiger is located in the province of al-Washem, 210 km to the north of the city of Riyadh, and administratively it follows the province of Shaqra, which is the closest city to it, as it is located to the south of about 15 km. Islam, mentioned by the poet Al-Hatta who died in the year 45 AH, is one of the most famous cities of Najd in the medieval Islamic era. It was known for its many scholars and judges, and the family of the renewed Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, may God have mercy on him, considered it in his book The Scholars of Najd during six centuries The first is in Najd. Many families belong to it, which have spread throughout Najd and beyond..
Selection Criteria
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
Well preserved
References
Commission of Tourism and Heritage