1 Jan 1965 Jahr - First University - King AbdulAziz University

Beschreibung:

Launching of the National University with civil efforts: 1965
The transport merchant Mohammed Abu Bakr Bakhshab Pasha opened the donations in July 1964 at a huge amount by that time, a million riyals. Then three months later a big celebration held in al Thagher school to start the donation campaign for the university, where the value of donations from the parents reached four million and a half
Jeddah National University, which started from a modest apartment in King Abdul Aziz Street under the Pharmacy of Tamr known at the entrance of the street Qabil, with a hundred and forty students, before the expansion and turn its name after the state takeover to the University of King Abdulaziz.

Source: "The social history of art, beauty and modern culture" by Mahmoud Abdul Ghani Sabbagh