Coordinates: 26°11′38″N 50°24′16″E / 26.19376°N 50.40433°E Jidda Island (Arabic: جزيرة جدة) is an islet in Bahrain. It lies to the west of Bahrain Island and just north of Umm an Nasan. It is connected to Umm an Nasan by a short causeway.
Jidda used to be the location of one of Bahrain's prisons[1]. Majeed Marhoon, Abdulhadi Khalaf and several other political activists spent time in the prison in the sixties and seventies.
It later became the private property of Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and is currently closed from the public. The island has a palace, gardens, a helipad, a mosque and several other facilities used by the Prime Minister and his Family.
The island is made of limestone cliffs. It is believed that blocks of rock cut from the island were used in the Barbar temple on Bahrain Island.[2]
References
External links
- Jidda Island
- Article about politics of the islands, Abbas al Murshid
- Jidda Island Mosque - Archnet.org
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