Nasaba village

The heritage village of Al-Nasbaa is located on the peaks of the Sarawat Mountains in the northwest of the center of Al-Bahahah city, about 40 km from it, and is bordered on the north by the village of ... It is bordered to the north by the villages of Al-Mandak and Al-Anq, to the south by the villages of Ashba and Al-Ka'amir, to the east by the village of Al-Hallah, and to the west by Tihama. It is one of the villages of Bani Kinana belonging to the country of Zahran, and has been known since ancient times as Al-Fahira. The village is located on the top of the mountain overlooking a deep valley, and the village consists of a number of residential buildings, most of which are adjacent to each other, and were built on the natural sloping ground. Most of the houses are one or two-story buildings, and the majority of the village's houses are dilapidated. Partially dilapidated and abandoned. The overall appearance of the village is homogeneous with the natural slope of the land. As a result of the juxtaposition of buildings, the village appears as an architectural fabric expressive of the local pattern of heritage village planning. The village is devoid of any modern buildings, except for some modern additions to two residential buildings and a modern mosque adjacent to it, and it occupies all the land of the rocky hill on which it is built. Its walls were built using stones stacked on top of each other in an artistic way that requires high professional expertise, and were reinforced on the inside with a thick layer of mud and clay. It is noteworthy that the craftsmen were creative in the formations of external facades and architectural openings through stone protrusions and the use of white-colored stone in simple decorative formations in a number of buildings. Roofs were built using tree trunks and a layer of tree branches, topped with mud and clay. In a number of houses, the roofs were supported on rectangular wooden poles topped with a larger piece that resembled the crown of the pole (known locally as a mizrahi). The mizrahi is considered a distinctive architectural element