Dana Mall - Upclose Shot

Near Dark at Pearl Monument Sanabis

Theme Day - Contrast

Today is theme day in the City Daily Photo community, and the theme is contrast. Sanabis DP contribution is this photo showing the Al Hamad Twin Towers in Sanabis (well kinda forget the name of the street). It was near the end of sunset.

Workers Back Home

Nazar Modern Car Washing in Sanabis

The Mosque Series - The Beautiful Shia mosque

The beautiful Shia Mosque with a background of Sunni Mosque under the near sunset sky.

Men Walking Out of the Grand Mosque

Carrefour at Bahrain City Center

Today's photo is a trip to Carrefour at Bahrain City Center on one of this dryer day.

New City Center Mall in Bahrain

Sanabis Central Market

2nd Day of Sandstorm

A Dusty Day

Today the weather is not really friendly in Bahrain. There is a heavy sandstorm surrounding most of Bahrain now.

I also want to say hi to everybody who is a loyal blogwalker to Sanabis DP and also apologize for the long hiatus since the last post. Sanabis DP is back with fresh new photos. Though today's photo is showing how grimmy the weather in Bahrain but I have stocked up some fresh and interesting photos for the coming weeked.

Day of Ashura

Today is the 1st Ashura festival in Bahrain and the rest of Islamic country. As quoted by Wiki, the Shia muslims are commemorating the Ashura day as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Husyan ibn Ali (peace be upon him), the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad SAW (Peace Be Upon Him) at the Battle oof Karbala on 10 Muharram in the year 61 AH (October 10, 680 AD meanwhile for Sunni Muslims believe that Moses fasted on that day to express gratitude to God for liberation of Israelites from Egypt.

In some countries and regions such as Iran, Iraq, pakistan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamica, the commemoration of Ashura has become a national holiday and most ethnic and religious communities participate in it.

The word Ashura means simply tenth in Arabic; hence the name of the remembrance, literally translated, means "the tenth day". For further reading about Ashura, please go here, so you could get a better understanding about this religous event.

The further interesting about this event, it also existing in my home country Indonesia, exactly celebrated in Pariaman, the West Coast of West Sumatra Province. Though it is originally a Shia festival but in Pariaman is held by the Sunnis, please go to this article about Tabuik (local manifestation of Muharram by Wiki to further reading about the history of Tabuik celebration on Ashura.

In Bahrain, the Ashura procession is held in many areas such as in Manama (the capital city), Sanabis, Jidhafs, Budaiya, Ali and Buri and other areas as well. Unfortunately, I am always at work during this festival and luckily a friend give some photos taken last year for Sanabis DP. After a lot of consideration, I decide not to post them here today due to the nature of the content but I will give you a link here. Sara from Mashhad DP Iran is also posting about Ashura and will give you a complete explanation about how Ashura celebrated in Iran. Please go here to see her DP as she also has tons of beautiful photos.

So, further to keep Sanabis DP with photo, I am posting the photo shown at Wikipedia;

Sunset Along Jidhafs Highway Sanabis Area

Today's photo was taken today on my way back to Juffair from Pets Shop at Sanabis area. While waiting for the red light at the traffic, I remember that I have not posted any sunset taken in Sanabis since my last post here.

Talking about sunset, There were quite numbers of sunsets posted at Sanabis DP and you can se them here in Sanabis, here, here, here with King Fadh Bridge background, here at Al Dar, here at Shakir Highway and here at Juffair Marina. I hope I will manage to get some more shots on sunset for 2009.

Happy Saturday Everybody, 2008 is near to end and I am so looking forward for 2009! Have a blessed weekend!

Jawad Service Station

Street Fruit Vendor at Sanabis Fresh Market

This photo is from my photo archive and taken last week during my Eid shopping trip at Sanabis fresh market. It is interestin to note that most of these fresh vegetable are homegrown product. They are all harvested in Sanabis farm. The choices are quite spoiling for my taste. There are egg-plant, many types of salad leaves (I have no idea how to explain it to you all dear readers, I need to update this page later on as the english is not standard LOL ).

I hope this dayoff on Sunday, I would be able to visit the farms area surrounding Sanabis area where I used to live and I will be paying a visit to one of the workers I posted on my very early posting here.

A 4 KGs Mutton for 2 Dinars?

It would be Eid ul Adha in 2 days and people went to market to buy stuffs to cook for the entire family on the blessed day.

Sanabis Fresh Meat Market

Today's photo is the building of Fresh Meat Market at Sanabis. This market is located behind the Marina Mall and adjacent to Rameez Mall and Fresh Fruit Market. In this picture, I took the shot of the outer building of the Meat Market. Considering its location and the crowdiness of a meat market, the building and the street are clean and well maintained.

Happy Tuesday Everybody!

The Dhow, Bahraini's Wooden Boat

Today we are going sailing with Bahraini's famous wooden boat; "The Dhow". Anyone interested to join us? Just jump in! We have enough space for everybody.

Sunset at Sanabis

This beautiful sunset that I will remember for many years to come.