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Historic City of Saada

by Bernard Gagnon, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

Historic City of Saada

Sadaa is the capital city of Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen. The city is one of the oldest medieval cites in Yemen, important for its historical, architectural, urban and spiritual. Al-Hadi Mosque, which is one of the historical mosques of the city, was built in around 897 AD , and named after Imam Yahya Bin Al-Hussein, the founder of the Ziyadi state.