Bait Al Jasra ( Al Jasra House )


The Traditional Bahraini houses are built around several courtyards each of which forms a separate unit opening on to a series of shallow rooms. Upstairs the arrangement of rooms is repeated but instead of the thick stone walls of the ground floor, the walls are built of a series of piers alternating with panels made out of thin coral slabs. Sometimes two layers of coral slabs were used with a cavity in between to provide increased thermal insulation. The temperature of the lower rooms is kept low by various ventilation ducts connected to wind catchers. In addition to coral panels plaster screens are used as a means of ensuring privacy in the upper part of the house. These screens are often decorated with geometric patterns, the most common of which is a series of intersecting rectangles producing a stepped pattern. Most of the traditional houses of Bahrain are located in the Muharraq district of the capital Manama. The most famous house is the palace of Sheikh Isa built in 1830 which now called as Al Jasra House or 'Bait al jasra' (Arabised) and recently restored as a national monument. The house is built around four courtyards and includes some beautiful incised stucco panels in the upper rooms.

The clay jars were widely used in Bahrain. This was the easiest and the best method to keep water cool in this hot region.They were made from clay either in shape of a jar or pots and often added with simple decoration.

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