MAISON MURAD ET MAJLIS (MURAD HOUSE AND MAJLIS)

As the tradition was, the main residence of the wealthy Murad family, which had made fortune in the pearl trade, was separated from the majlis, the reception room where foreigners visited the Tawawish, the patriarch and owner of the trading. Built at the end of the nineteenth century on a land given to the family by Emmir Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, it is difficult to imagine today that the sea was less than 50 meters from the house. With its corallian limestone walls, its large inner courtyard and its main room topped by a floor from which the roofs were accessed, the Murad family house is one of the most beautiful tawawish residences in Bahrain. The majlis, located on the other side of the park, presents more than some of the receptions of other large merchants, but its elegance proves the status of the Murad family. His descendants still receive today in this majlis.