Al Badiyah
Al-Badiyah or Al-Bidyah is a settlement in the Emirate of Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates. It is the site of a historical mosque of the same name, which is the oldest functional mosque in the country, dating back to the 15th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in United Arab Emirates
- Also known as: “Al Badīyah”, “Al Bidyah”, “Badīya”, “Badiyah”, “Badīyah”, “Badiyyah”, “Badya”, “Bidiya”, “Bidya”, “Bidyah”, “Budayyah”, “Sha’biyyah Al Bidyah”, and “Sha’biyyah Al Bidyah, Al Bidyah, Badya, Al Badīyah, Badīya, Badīyah, Badiyyah, Bidiya, Bidyah, Budayyah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al Badiyah Mosque.
Al Badiyah Mosque
Mosque
Al-Bidya Mosque is a historical mosque in the Emirate of Fujairah, the U.A.E. It was the oldest known mosque in the country, prior to the discovery in September 2018 of the ruins of a 1000-year-old mosque dating back to the Islamic Golden Age, near the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque in the city of Al Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sharm and Zubarah.
Sharm
Town
Photo: IbrahimKumar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi Sharm is a valley or dry river with flow ephemeral or intermittent, flowing almost exclusively during the rainy season, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Fujairah. Sharm is situated 3½ km north of Al Badiyah.
Zubarah
Suburb
Zubarah is a coastal suburb to the North of Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. It is the northernmost district of Khor Fakkan municipality. Zubarah is situated 4 km south of Al Badiyah.
Al Badiyah
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
25.438° or 25° 26′ 17″ northLongitude
56.3427° or 56° 20′ 34″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7HQRC8QV+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 8128209873OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al Badiyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البدية”
- Bengali: “আল বাদিয়াহ”
- Catalan: “Al-Bidya”
- Dutch: “Al Badiyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البديه”
- French: “Al Badīyah”
- German: “Al-Bidya”
- Mazanderani: “بدیه”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Badiyah”
- Persian: “ال بدیاه”
- Persian: “البدیح”
- Spanish: “Al Badiyah”
- Spanish: “Al Badīyah”
- Spanish: “Al Bidyah”
- Spanish: “Badīya”
- Spanish: “Badīyah”
- Spanish: “Badiyyah”
- Spanish: “Badya”
- Spanish: “Bidiya”
- Spanish: “Bidya”
- Spanish: “Bidyah”
- Spanish: “Budayyah”
- Spanish: “Sha’biyyah Al Bidyah”
- Urdu: “البدیہ”
- Uzbek: “Al Badiyah”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Al Bidya Historic Mosque and Fort and Al Badiyah Fort.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Al Badiyah”. Photo: Bobak, CC BY 3.0.