Vernacular architecture

NOTES: Sharjah, bordering Dubai to the north, is the third largest of the seven states which form the United Arab Emirates and Dhaid is the capital of the central district.

NOTES: Sharjah, bordering Dubai to the north, is the third largest of the seven states which form the United Arab Emirates and Dhaid is the capital of the central district.

SOURCE: Constantin Uhde. Baudenkmaler in Grossbritannien (Berlin, 1894), vol. II, pl. 151 NOTES: This half-timbered building, dated 1652, was reconstructed in the vernacular revival style by James Harrison in 1862.

NOTES: Some of these buildings were destroyed by fire in 1975.