Jeddah (island)
| Jeddah | ||
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| Waters | Persian Gulf | |
| Geographical location | 26 ° 11 ′ 37 " N , 50 ° 24 ′ 15" E | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| width | 630 m | |
| surface | 50 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The island of Jeddah ( Arabic جزيرة جدة, DMG Ǧazīrat Ǧidda ) is an uninhabited island in Bahrain . It is located west of Bahrain Island and north of Umm Nasan Island in the Persian Gulf . It is connected to Umm Nasan by a dam almost 1,600 meters long.
Jeddah was the location of one of Bahrain's prisons . Majeed Marhoon , Abdulhadi Khalaf, and several other political activists spent time here during the 1960s and 1970s.
The island later became the private property of Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and is currently not open to the public. On the island there is a palace, gardens, a helipad , a mosque and various other locations that have been built for the prime minister and his family, although the island itself is uninhabited and Sheikh Chalifa himself is in ar-Rifa on the main island of Bahrain lives.
The island consists of limestone cliffs. It is believed that the boulders that were cut from the island were used in the construction of the Barbarian Temple on the island of Bahrain.
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Web links
- Jidda Island Mosque - Archnet.org ( Memento from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )