Al Masani (Riyadh)
Village-turned neighbourhood in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Al-Masani (Arabic: المصانع, romanized: al-maṣāniʿ, lit. 'industrial plants') is a historic neighborhood and a former town in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, situated south of Manfuhah in the sub-municipality of al-Shifa.[1] The neighborhood traces its origins to an ancient agricultural village that served as a confluence of Wadi Hanifa and Wadi al-Batʼha and was known for its cultivation of palm groves in al-Yamama during pre-Islamic Arabia.[2][3] It was also mentioned in Yaqut al-Hamawi's 13th century work Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān (transl. Dictionary of Countries).[4] It was incorporated into the burgeoning metropolis of Riyadh during the city's multiple phases of urbanization and expansion in the 1950s and 1970s.
Al-Masaniʽ
حي المصانع | |
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Souq Haraj in al-Masani, 2022 | |
  Al-Masaniʽ Location within Saudi Arabia  Al-Masaniʽ Location within Asia | |
| Coordinates: 24°34′34″N 46°44′2″E | |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| City | Riyadh |
| Government | |
| • Body | Baladiyah Al Shifa |
| Language | |
| • Official | Arabic |
Masani was also a site of conflict in 1837 when Imam Faisal's forces clashed with the Ottomans and the forces of its Riyadh-based vassal emirate during the former's attempt to regain control of the region.[5]
