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Amiriya Madrasa

1504 · 16th century · Also known as Amiriya Mosque

The Amiriya Madrasa is a religious school and mosque in Rada'a, Yemen, built by the Tahirid sultan Amir ibn Abd al-Wahhab and completed in 1504. Its white domes and richly painted interiors make it one of the finest Islamic monuments of southern Arabia. A long restoration project from the 1980s to 2005 rescued its decoration and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Amiriya Madrasa
Image: U.S. Embassy Yemen · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Tahirid Sultanate

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Amiriya Madrasa. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/amiriya-madrasa
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