New Community Services, Infrastructure, etc established (jan 1, 1880 – jan 1, 1890)
Description:
In the 1880s, the large structures in Jeddah included the government customs house, quarantine facilities, post office, police stations, a small municipal hospital near the Makkah gate, barracks, and the governor’s office. There were also two caravanserais, five large mosques
and thirty smaller, and only one pharmacy and one hammam. The big mansions of the foreign consulates, of the steamships compagnies, and the bank branches, were built in the Syrian quarter, in the north and north-west parts of the
city, where Jeddawi notables were also established, while the other quarters of the city housed the inhabitants and the pilgrims passing through.
Source: UNESCO nomination document, SCTA
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