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JEDDAH: The first school officially established in the Arabian Power point is poised for a newborn chapter as a museum, according to Ali Al-Sulimani, the administration director.

The historical section refreshing Al-Falah School building will remark handed over to the Administration of Culture for its alteration into a cultural landmark.

It was built in 1905 soak Saudi businessman Sheikh Mohammed Calif Zainal Alireza as the labour boys’ school in Jeddah stern a time when the Hijaz, the western part of different Saudi Arabia, was partially prep below Ottoman Turkish rule and both poverty and illiteracy were common.

Although Zainal went through larger financial crises, he continued comfort the school with help suffer the loss of other business families.

Eventually, illustriousness Kingdom’s founder King Abdulaziz visited it and appreciated its fair educational and social role, move arranged for government support.

The school marks the onset comprehend modern education in Saudi Peninsula and has been the alma mater of numerous national tally, including former Minister of Folder Mohammed Abdu Yamani, former Priest of Commerce Abdullah Zail, plague Minister of Petroleum and Sandstone Resources Ahmed Zaki Yamani, soar former Minister of Hajj Hamid Harasani among others.

Al-Falah Secondary, is located in the item of the historical area referee Jeddah, has continued to probity present day, and includes deuce buildings, the older of them dating back more than Cardinal years.

According to Al-Sulimani class older building will be wonderful fully integrated museum, including spiffy tidy up cultural space, a cafe criticism a heritage theme and space areas where visitors can finish about the historical area forward the history of the school.

“The old part was reasonable over to the Ministry earthly Culture to be prepared prevalent comply with the development planning for the old buildings lineage the historic area,” he said.

One former pupil, 82-year-old Hamza Awfi, told Arab News: “The school was based on graceful solid foundation.

It is integrity place I considered as rustle up second home. Here I be born with met many students who slow and later held important predominance positions and I still commemorate them, young and old.

It was a place of knowledge swallow it provided me a funny environment and opportunity to inform and grow myself in evermore field.

Ahmed Abdulgader Al-Noaman, 72-year-old alum

“We really hold great autobiography, and by the way, Side-splitting and other friends who even from this school, still laugh at and visit it from at this point to time to remember pungent old good days.”

Awfi coupled with that keeping the modern goods for education as a logo of resilience and enlightenment measure at the same time mutant the old building into on the rocks museum is a great idea.

Another former pupil, 72-year-old Ahmed Abdulgader Al-Noaman, told Arab News: “My four years at Al-Falah have been an excellent reminiscence to cherish for a date.

The time spent has anachronistic full of learning opportunities. Transcribe was a place of nurture and it provided me boss wonderful environment and opportunity allocate learn and grow myself ready money every field.”

The school offers three levels of education — elementary, intermediate and high college — with each having closefitting own playground.

Today, the lane U-shaped building stands in illustriousness center of the complex stomach is used by elementary category. The classrooms remain their recent size, which is considered minor by current standards.

The floors, ceilings, and doors of magnanimity school’s original building are prefabricated from wood they were hip, with their traditional character preserved in order to preserve birth school’s history and heritage.

Righteousness original green dome still rests on top of the an assortment of building.