Fereej Al Asmakh

District in Ad-Dawhah, Qatar

Fereej Al Asmakh فريج عبد العزيز
District
Al Maamoun Street in Fereej Al Asmakh
25°16′50″N 51°32′00″E / 25.280442°N 51.533298°E / 25.280442; 51.533298
Country	Qatar
Municipality	Ad-Dawhah
Zone	Zone 5
District no.	7
Area ^[1]
• Total	0.77 km² (0.30 sq mi)

Fereej Al Asmakh (Arabic: فريج الأصمخ, romanized: Farīj al-'Aṣmakh) is a Qatari district located in the municipality of Ad Dawhah. Administratively, it is part of Zone 5, along with Al Najada and Barahat Al Jufairi.^[2]^[3]

It is one of the smaller and older districts of Doha. As such, the district is considered as a good example of Qatar's cultural identity, which has led to several development programs by the government to rehabilitate its dilapidated structures.^[4]

Etymology

In Arabic, fereej translates to "neighborhood", while the Al-Asmakh portion of the name refers to one of the area's first major landowners.^[5]

References

^ "District Area Map". Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
^ "2010 population census" (PDF). Qatar Statistics Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
^ "District map". The Centre for Geographic Information Systems of Qatar. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
^ Djamel Boussaa (18 March 2014). "Al Asmakh historic district in Doha, Qatar: from an urban slum to living heritage". Journal of Architectural Conservation. 20 (1): 2–15. doi:10.1080/13556207.2014.888815. S2CID 109736065. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
^ Fletcher, Richard; Carter, Robert A. (12 May 2017). "Mapping the Growth of an Arabian Gulf Town: the case of Doha, Qatar" (PDF). Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 60 (4): 25. doi:10.1163/15685209-12341432. Retrieved 10 June 2024.