Two historic villages in Muharraq with deep-rooted Christian heritage could be on course for global recognition, after councillors unanimously backed a proposal to seek Unesco World Heritage status for Dair and Samaheej.
The Muharraq Municipal Council yesterday approved submitting a joint bid highlighting the two communities as some of the Gulf’s earliest witnesses to Christianity and symbols of Bahrain’s long-standing tradition of religious coexistence .
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