Hello one and all...

I'm starting this thread for you so we can get this contest on the way. Basicly on this thread nominate the wonders of Saudi Arabia (manmade). The two most voted for sites on this thread will be entered into a poll on the main ME forum...

Out of the ~18 contestant structures (in the final poll) the seven most voted for shall become the 'Seven Wonders of the Middle East and Africa'. C'mon guys this is all for fun and to show off what the ME & Africa has to offer architecturally, so NO politics here please... :)

Here's a contest they did at the European forums a while back, Let's try to choose the 7 wonders of Middle east and africa, I'll just copy guidelines and rules from their contest.

Guidelines:

1- The wonders must be buildings/structures made by humans.

2- The structures must not be in construction!

3- Every subforum will nominee 2 wonders from their area (by voting) to the big final which will be held here later on.

4- The 7 wonders with the most scores in the final will become the 7 wonders of Middle east and Africa.

It's up to the forumers in each subforum to make the threads
1. with nominations
2. final poll

If a forum can't come up with atleast one nominees we'll just skip that forum!

Come on guys this is prestige!!

Keep it civilized.

GRAND MOSQUE at Makkah
PROPHET'S MOSQUE at Madina

:cheer:

Grand Mosque Makkah
The Prophet's Mosque Medinah
Madein Saleh
Hejaz Railway
Kingdom Center
Old Jeddah
King Fahd Causeway

VC15 we need pictures bro ;)

1. Makkah mosque
2. Medina Mosque
3.Mada'en Saleh (Shelah) nice pic in middle east thread

Masjid al haram (makkah)
Masjid Al nabawi (Madina)
Old Jeddah
Old yanbu
Hejaz Railway
Old Najd
OLd asir houses?

Mosques in Makkah and Madinah

Can we get some photos?

Preferably some where the architecture is as visible as possible.

1. Makkah (Islamic)
2. Kingdom Center (modernity, its is absolutely a masterpiece)
3. maadaein Saleh (culture)

VC15 we need pictures bro ;)

Sorry bout that. I've been out of town for the past three days.

Makkah, Grand Mosque
http://www.al-islam.org/gallery/photos/mecca.gif
http://www.exploresaudiarabia.com/learn/images/makkah.jpg
http://www.binhajri.com/photos/satellite/kaba_mecca_ksa.jpg

Medinah, The Prophet's Mosque
http://www.exploresaudiarabia.com/learn/images/medinah.jpg
http://www.moveed.com/data/media/4/Medinah.jpg

Madein Saleh
http://www.baynardscastle.com/medsaleh/614-960-32.jpg

Kingdom Center
http://www.toursaudiarabia.com/images/riyadh-3-large.jpg
http://www.toursaudiarabia.com/riyadh/riyadh-4-high.jpg
http://www.ellerbebecket.com/uploads/kingdom2_nr.jpg

Hejaz Railway
http://sabbah.biz/mt/images/hijaz_train.JPG
http://www.baynardscastle.com/medsaleh/797-6341.jpg

King Fahd Causeway
http://galen-frysinger.com/middle_east/bahrain28.jpg
http://photos.kyleh.net/bear_bahrain02/bahrain12/112-1287_IMG.JPG
http://www.arab-world-information.com/bahrain_files/image013.jpg
http://misheli.image.pbase.com/u40/bmcmorrow/upload/26159623.aerials499.JPG

Old Jeddah
http://us.travel2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/travel/tg/lp/01/500x500_01b7f7bb6b52ef54d7bd534df726973e.jpg
http://www.jeddah-ksa.com/Old%20house.jpg
http://www.silvija.net/2002SaudiMay/OJstreet01.jpg

Wow, looking at the railroad aboned like that makes me want to go and do something about resoring the old rail line...

The oil wells and the pipelines:D

AL HARAMAYN (grand mosques of mekka and al madina)

Kaba in Mecca ^^

^^loooool
1. Makkah (Islamic)
2. Kingdom Center (modernity, its is absolutely a masterpiece)
3. maadaein Saleh (culture)

i agree with you:yes:

intersting indeed

In my humble opinion :), The Seven Wonders of Saudi Arabia should be:
1. The Kingdom Centre, Riyadh.
It represents modernity and beauty of design

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/407/kingdomcentre.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)


2. Mada'in Saleh/Al-Ula (or Cities of Shelah).
They represent how rich this land is when it comes to antiquities.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1339/qasrfaridinshelahcities.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)


3. The Kaaba (The Mosque is excluded), Mecca.
A major pilgrimage destination for over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, also because it is estimated to be over 4000 years old.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5361/theholymosquefullofpilg.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)

As to why I believe the mosque should be excluded, it's because I think the mosque itself does not represent a value of beauty whatsoever.


4. Marble Village, Al-Baha.
It's an amazing place that points how great these natives were in building castles and mansions.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1115/themarblevillageinalbah.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)


5. Tribe of Alma Village, Abha.
Also another amazing village, this one is fully built on mountains. It kinda resembles the Yemeni style of building, but I think it's more special and different.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3316/almatribesvillage.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)

6. Mosque of Juatha, Al-Hassa.
The second mosque built on purpose in Islam, the first Friday sermons in Islam were held there. It also had survived a lot of environmental factors and other kind of factors.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3586/masjed20jawatha.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)


7. The Old City of Jeddah.
Built in a really beautiful manner with its own architectural style that no other city has in the whole world.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7201/nassifhouse.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com/)


Sorry guys for the crappy quality of the pictures.. Peace out :nocrook:

^^

I agree with this post. Are all these places relatively easily accessible apart from Mecca and Medina?

Yes they are =)

Thank You Very Much @Mesch for the post with the beautiful pictures. How I wish I could visit all these places ( except The Kaaba, since I'm not a Muslim ). Been to Riyadh and Jeddah though.

Thanks all..
>>> I put my best there :D
And yes I think they're all "easily accessible", except for the Marble Village.. I'm not sure about that one

impressive^^

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1339/qasrfaridinshelahcities.jpg

تشكر جميع..
>>> أضع جهدي هناك

1. Prophet Mosque in Madinah
2. AlMasjid Alharam in Makkah
3. Shayba Oil Field - Saudi Aramco
4. Madaen Saleh
5. KAUST
6. King Fahad Causeway
7. Kingdom Center

1. Masjid al Haram
2. Masjid al Nabwi
3. KAUST
4. King Fahd Causeway
5. The 2400 km NSR
6. King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh
7. Kingdom Tower Riyadh as well as upcoming Kingdom Tower in Jeddah

very nice

The endless palm plantations of El-Hasa

http://www.4eqt.org/6pic2/bb/hasa2.jpg

http://www.alhsa.com/forum/imgcache/278055.imgcache

1- Ka'abah Black Stone
2- Maqam Ibraheem
3- Zamzam well
4- Madinah Mosque
5-Mada'n Saleh
6-Lost city of Eram
7-Saudi people :lol:

^^ Saudi people are not manmade :tongue2:

What's the Lost City of Eram btw ?

^^ Saudi people are not manmade :tongue2:

What's the Lost City of Eram btw ?

But you can't deny that they are miraculous...

Sure I can. :sleepy:

The endless palm plantations of El-Hasa

http://www.4eqt.org/6pic2/bb/hasa2.jpg

http://www.alhsa.com/forum/imgcache/278055.imgcache

How did I miss this? Anyone has high res pics of the area?

Selam aleykum, and hallo to everyone... I'm new here...
Grand Mosque Makkah
The Prophet's Mosque Medinah
Madein Saleh
Hejaz Railway
Kingdom Center
Old Jeddah
King Fahd Causeway
I totally agree with you

i think we should separate between natural wonders and man-made wonders :)