Golden Gate of the Temple of Death Maker
Monday 16 November 2009Posted by
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Ahmad produce Kaaba door using pure gold weighing 300 kg on the order of the King Khaled in October 1979. -BERNAMA Photo
Sheikh Ahmad bin Ibrahim Badr, the main artisans who design gold doors of the Temple, died at the age of 89 years in Mecca last Friday, so the English-language daily Saudi Arabia, The Arab News reported on Sunday.
Ahmad produce the Kaaba using pure gold weighing 300 kg on the order of the King Khaled in October 1979.
The work was conducted in a workshop that was built specifically for the project. He also streamline and beautify the meezab (water channels in the Temple) and silver frame Black Stone.
He learned the art from his father, designer and builder of the original doors on the order of the King Abdul Aziz in 1942, reported the newspaper.
Ibrahim and two brothers, Mahmoud and Ibrahim Badr, based on pure gold door, took one year completion.
Pole and meezab, made of gold weighing 25 kg 24karat also completed during that period.
Verse of the Quran "O Hayy Ya Qayyum" (O the Ever-Living, All-Hearing) and the word "God" and "Mohammed" engraved on the door.
Verse of the Quran "O Hayy Ya Qayyum" (O the Ever-Living, All-Hearing) and the word "God" and "Mohammed" engraved on the door. Their work includes silver frame Black Stone, the newspaper reported.
Ahmad was born at home in retreat Qashashiya fathers in Mecca in 1920. After studying at the local alFalah school he joined his father in the workshop of gold and silver at the age of 15 years.
Ahmad has been working in his father's shop "Sheikh Ibrahim Badr" in the Goldsmiths' Street all his life.
He was born in the famous art crafts fineness of gold ekskuisit Penan handicraft, the newspaper said. BERNAMA
Sheikh Ahmad bin Ibrahim Badr, the main artisans who design gold doors of the Temple, died at the age of 89 years in Mecca last Friday, so the English-language daily Saudi Arabia, The Arab News reported on Sunday.
Ahmad produce the Kaaba using pure gold weighing 300 kg on the order of the King Khaled in October 1979.
The work was conducted in a workshop that was built specifically for the project. He also streamline and beautify the meezab (water channels in the Temple) and silver frame Black Stone.
He learned the art from his father, designer and builder of the original doors on the order of the King Abdul Aziz in 1942, reported the newspaper.
Ibrahim and two brothers, Mahmoud and Ibrahim Badr, based on pure gold door, took one year completion.
Pole and meezab, made of gold weighing 25 kg 24karat also completed during that period.
Verse of the Quran "O Hayy Ya Qayyum" (O the Ever-Living, All-Hearing) and the word "God" and "Mohammed" engraved on the door.
Verse of the Quran "O Hayy Ya Qayyum" (O the Ever-Living, All-Hearing) and the word "God" and "Mohammed" engraved on the door. Their work includes silver frame Black Stone, the newspaper reported.
Ahmad was born at home in retreat Qashashiya fathers in Mecca in 1920. After studying at the local alFalah school he joined his father in the workshop of gold and silver at the age of 15 years.
Ahmad has been working in his father's shop "Sheikh Ibrahim Badr" in the Goldsmiths' Street all his life.
He was born in the famous art crafts fineness of gold ekskuisit Penan handicraft, the newspaper said. BERNAMA
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