The Naif Palace Has Been Included In The Islamic Heritage List

During the Heritage Committee's eleventh meeting at the Islamic International, ISESCO decided to designate Kuwait's Naif Palace as an Islamic Heritage Website. Dr Walid Al-Saif, marketing consultant to the secretary-general of Kuwait's National Council for Tradition, Arts, and Letters (NCCAL), claimed that included Naif Palace in ISESCO's Heritage index is of "great historical value, since it's one of the most important Islamic castles."

He also underlined the ancient, political, and cultural significance of location, as well as its architectural assemblage that prompted such an inclusion to ISESCO's heritage inventory. The Palace has a total area of 28,882 square metres and 214 rooms that have been used to store cannons and artillery while other rooms have been utilised to accommodate guards and infantrymen due to its proximity to the town boundaries and primary gate. It's a surprise of Kuwait's antiquities from the first quarter of the twentieth century, with wide open courtyards and massive handcrafted picket doors, as well as Islamic flavour arches around the interior design of the construction.

Ramadan is when this palace is most visible since it is utilized for the fire of the iftar cannon, which has been a tradition in Kuwait since town walls were built. "From both the northern and Japanese sides of the courtyard, you'll view the long liwan with arches and columns of Islamic architectural style." Under the patronage of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Palace became the headquarters of the Public Security Directorate in 1950, serving as a location to settle disputes, differences, and criminal cases. After all, the conclusion came after two days of sanctioned conversations since the committee thoroughly investigated the palace's ancient significance. - KUNA

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