Al Dehlawi Palaces - Qurwa

Closed of course, unfortunately, I wish they could control it, and it would be an archaeological tourist place ...

An ancient palace in Taif, visited by some tourists

It was my school, I studied from the first to the third elementary school and was called the village school and its director was Professor Rashid Al Samhan, may God Almighty have mercy on him.

It was built by Abdullah Al-Dahlawi and his brother Abdullah in the year 1315 AH. It was inhabited by Obaidullah Abdul Rashid Dahlawi, then Abdullah Abdul Rashid Dahlawi after the completion of the first phase, and Abdullah Dahlawi was among those receiving the arrival of King Abdulaziz Al Saud when he entered Makkah and headed to Taif, and the king assigned him the task of supervising the restoration and painting of the Grand Mosque in Makkah when The first expansion, and also made him supervisor of the administration of Ain Zubaydah in Makkah and the expansion of Zamzam water in the Haram. King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud lived in it while his father, King Abdulaziz, was in Taif in the summer and during his illness. The palace was inhabited by one of the wives of King Abdul Aziz, who was called the mother by King Faisal bin Abdulaziz. Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal lived in it and some of his children. The grove next to the palace witnessed horse races between the sons of King Abdul Aziz, the sons of King Faisal and the sons of Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal, and King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz watched these occasions. It was housed by Hassan Ishaq Abdullah Dahlawi, official at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs in the Jeddah branch, Hasan Ishaq Dahlawi, Director of the Technology Institute in Riyadh, Abdul Rashid Ishaq, Director of the Credit Department at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency in Riyadh, and Abdul Majid Ishaq, in charge and advisor at the Monetary Agency in Taif, and Abdul Rahman Ishaq, an employee of Jeddah TV And Yaqoub Ishaq, an employee of the General Auditing Bureau in Riyadh. It was inhabited by Brigadier General Omar Abdel-Hayy Abdullah Dahlawi, Director of the Youth House in Makkah Uthman Omar Dahlawi, and the writer Mahmoud Abdel-Wahab Dahlawi and his father, Abdel-Wahab Dahlawi.

Al-Dahlawi Palace is considered one of the ancient palaces in the city of Taif. It consists of three floors built according to the local Hijaz architecture, which takes into account Ottoman and Islamic arts in creating palaces. The palace is characterized by local stone formed in environmental colors on columns, arches and stone and marble frames. The palace was built on farmland that made it rustic style. The windows of the palace were distinguished by their large size, which is considered a milestone in its circular openings, and it is also characterized by the presence of open roofs and external balconies that were engraved in aesthetic forms, and the number of windows reached about 150, taking the coordinated engineering spaces. The palace was distinguished by the presence of three bureaus that were characterized by its good environmental raw materials. From the main bureau in the south of the palace, stairs climbed from two hidden sides, while one bureau rode its frame and its distance from other facilities. With a length of 110 m, this courtyard is rich in cultivating communal fruits and flowers, and the courtyard is a well built at a height designated for watering purposes and the walls of the palace painted with Nora. The ceilings of the room were distinguished by their wood structures, which were used in the construction of juniper wood. The number of palace rooms is 35 rooms, which are distinguished by varying sizes, large and small, and annexes in the western and northern sides, their rooms are not less than 15 rooms, while the toilets are built in the Turkish character, which takes separate bathrooms outside each group of rooms that work with hot steam, where the bathrooms are considered Turkish civilizational character taken by most of the cities of Hijaz. The aesthetic composition of the three palaces is dominated by the distinctive Hijaz Islamic Islamic motifs and Roman columns, as well as wood carved with inscriptions on the doors, windows, and archers, as well as marble formed on the columns and arches in the palaces of the palace.

An old traditional house, which is not antique in the sense that one comes to mind. Unfortunately, it is closed! And careless! Workers live in its yards.

Mr. Abdullah Al-Dahlawi and his brother in 1315 AH, and the palace consists of three floors in an elaborate and wonderful Hijazi manner that included the arts of Ottoman engineering and Islamic arts that were followed in that period, especially in palaces. . The palace is surrounded by trees, green plants and roses, which transformed the place into a charming rustic style that catches the eye, and what reflects the beauty of the palace also are the Hijazi windows, which numbered 150 large-sized windows with distinctive circular openings and studied distances, as well as the presence of roofs and external open balconies, which are carved with wonderful aesthetic forms. In the palace there are three diwans, the main diwan is located in the south of the palace and can be reached by stairs that connect it from two different directions, while the second diwan is located far from other facilities and connected to a wide courtyard extending from east to west with a length of 204 meters, and from south to north with a length of 110 meters And this courtyard blooms with various plants, sectarian fruits and flowers, which are watered from a well built at a height designated for watering purposes and the walls of the palace painted with light.