Haifa
Serving Haifa's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, founded in India in 1889, this mosque is on the Mediterranean-facing slopes of Mt Carmel in the palm-lined…
Must-see attractions in Middle East
Tehran
The late 19th-century building housing the first public bank in Iran sits at the east end of Imam Khomeini Sq. At the time of writing the brick building…
Tel Aviv
This huge tower, the first skyscraper in Israel opened in 1965, is one of Tel Aviv's major landmarks and a notable part of its skyline. It has permanent…
Tel Aviv
This is the city’s religious beach, where men and women are segregated. Women can use the beach on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday; it’s the men’s turn on…
Jerusalem
With a conical glass roof feature, the Reform Movement’s educational and cultural complex is an arresting feature of Jerusalem's downtown skyline. Part of…
Iran
From a similar era to the BuAli Sina (Avicenna) Mausoleum, but architecturally more bizarre, looking like a giant child's sippy cup. There’s little reason…
West Bank
Al Kebir Mosque (Great Mosque) is built on the site of an earlier Crusader church and Byzantine and Roman basilicas. Bits and pieces of its earlier…
Tel Aviv
Close to the Carmel Market, Jerusalem Beach is at the start of Allenby St and its seafront fountain. Come with beers, music, watermelons and a nargileh…
Kuwait City
This refurbished, simple city gate once used to enter Kuwait's walled city is around a century old. Although the wall has come down, similar gates all…
Tehran
Ringed by perpetually seething traffic, Imam Khomeini Sq is not a place to linger. Little of the grandeur of the Qajar era remains here, although there is…
Kuwait City
This pyramid-shaped mosque is another example of Kuwait's exceptional modern mosque architecture. Non-Muslims can't go inside but are free to take a look…
Iran
A steep stairway near Mashahir Sq leads down into what was once a water cistern, though it's now blocked off. Behind, what appears to be a fortress tower…
Mecca
According to a hadith (Prophetic tradition) of Bin Abbas – a cousin of the Prophet and an early Islamic scholar – numerous prophets prayed here. It's…
Abu Dhabi
This iconic 27-floor building, with a 'golf ball' as its crowning glory, makes an excellent landmark for navigating the city's grid system. Built in 2001,…
Israel
Dedicated to Israeli and international contemporary art, with an emphasis on political subject matter, this gallery aims to engage as well as entertain…
Tripoli
Gleaming brassware characterises this market street, just outside the cramped central area of the souq. You'll need plenty of tenacity and elbow grease to…
Jordan
Encompassing a range of insects and stuffed animals and birds, as well as rocks from the region, this may not be to everybody’s taste, but it's a good…
Jerusalem
Resting place of an Uzbek prince's daughter, the tiny tomb from 1352 is adorned with carved geometric designs. Little is known of the woman interred here,…
Tehran
Under construction since the 1990s, this mammoth mosque, with 230m-tall minarets, will be one of the largest in the world when eventually completed – an…
Tehran
This minor attraction within the sprawling Sa’d Abad Museum Complex is one for motorheads with its well-buffed collection of Rolls Royce and Cadillac, and…
Iran
Tucked into the western corner of the Shah Abbas Caravanserai is this small museum of stuffed birds, local animals, pinned insects and pickled snakes…
East Jerusalem
The tent-roofed Tomb of Zechariah, flanked by Ionic columns, is carved out of rock. According to Jewish tradition, this is where the prophet Zechariah is…
Iran
Most accessible of the region’s castle ruins is the eroded grassy lump of Dezhe Sasal, which clings wart-like to a small wooded knoll 400m west of the…
Tehran
Dating from 1892, the old Cossacks Quarters forms an impressive architectural flourish at the northern end of pedestrian Melal-e Mottahed, the street once…
Amman
Ad Deir is a facade cut into the rock of a hillside about 4km west of Wadi As Seer on the road to Iraq Al Amir village. It most likely served as an…
Haifa
Haifa's largest mosque, built in 1926, is open only to worshippers. For shoppers and travellers, it serves as a landmark signalling the start of the…
Iran
Stairs to Babak Castle are located just behind this hotel, set on a lonely hill above Shoza-Abad hamlet, 6km from town.
Ramallah
Hosts art exhibitions by the locally and internationally renowned, along with a whole host of other cultural pursuits. Check the website for upcoming…
Mausoleum of Kashef-ol-Saltaneh
Iran
This austere, grey mausoleum entombs the man who is credited with introducing tea cultivation to Iran. It houses an underwhelming museum of tea…
Iran
Within the bazaar, Ehmad Dohla Mosque, entered through an attractive tiled portal, has a Qajar-era clock tower.
President of Israel's Residence
Jerusalem
Sharp-eyed security forces will usher you briskly on your way if you linger outside the President of Israel's Residence, completed in 1971.
Iran
The mud-walled remains of this Sassanid-era fortress overlook the mineral springs of Cheshmeh Ali.
Iran
Radkan's old ice house looks like a dripping, conical, pointed pudding of mud. It's less than 100m west of Imam Khomeini Sq.
Iran
This crumbling, two-chambered hammam from the Qajar period is in the process of being turned into a restaurant.
Iran
The fortress is used for military purposes and is firmly closed, though a tea bazaar huddles at its eastern edge.
Jerash
These ruins of a former church are extremely modest, but they're pretty when overgrown with spring wildflowers.
Umm Qais
This small mosque, no longer consecrated, is at the heart of the old Ottoman village of Umm Qais.
East Jerusalem
This site is where St James is believed to have hidden when Jesus was arrested nearby.
- placement: fullWidth
- path: Destinations/POIs/superzone
- possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [300, 250], [320, 50], [1, 1],
- targeting:
{ "position": "superzone" }
