A number of historic commercial buildings located in Muharraq’s traditional market area form part of the heritage site and its narrative.
A group of three amarat of the Fakhro family, originally a boat and timber trader family, is found immediately to the west of the Siyadi Shops. Of these, the two northern amarat were initially owned by Ali Rashid Fakhro.
Amarat Ali Rashid Fakhro (I) is a shop and storehouse complex operated by the Fakhro family from the 1890s. Two massive doors, one at each end, provide equal access to the storehouse from the former market and the seashore. The building housed one of Muharraq’s longest continuously operating coffee shops, Qahwat Bu Khalaf, an important social hub in the market precinct during the pearling era.
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