Team to restore mosques of Zabid historical city

SANA'A, Feb. 12 (Saba)- A field team was formed by the ministry of
culture to inspect current situation of the mosques in historical
city of Zabid and to start the restoring process for these mosques,
which dated back to the early age of Islam.

Director of Antiquities, Museums and Historical Cities Affairs at
the ministry Ahmed al-Radi told 26 September weekly that the
restoring process would be implemented in coordination with the
ministry of endowments and guidance soon and the first phase would
cover four mosques.

The city has nearly 90 mosques and Islamic schools, most of them
need for restoring and maintenance.