Bab Al Bahrain — Arabic for 'Gateway to Bahrain' — is a landmark that earns its name in the most literal sense. Built in 1945 by British Political Resident Sir Charles Belgrave and later renovated in the 1980s to adopt its current neo-Islamic facade, the structure once stood at the edge of the sea before land reclamation pushed the coastline outward. Today it marks the symbolic entrance to the old souk district of Manama, and arriving here feels less like visiting a monument and more like crossing a threshold into a different era of the city's story.
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