1 Jan 1880 Jahr - Bayt Baghdadi is Built

Beschreibung:

The most renowned and famous house of the old city at the turn of the 19th century was Bayt Baghdadi — a luxury mansion built to the south-west of the Pasha Mosque, facing the sea — once the residence of the former Ottoman
governor, later the home of the famed British explorer of Arabia, H. St. John Philby, and subsequently Aramco's (Arab American Company) first office building in the city. Built by
Musa Effendi al-Baghdadi — the wakil (deputy) to the Sharif of Makkah — in the 1880s, it was one of the finest examples of Jeddah architecture

Source: UNESCO nomination document, SCTA