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The King Abdullah I Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الملك عبد الله الأول) in Amman, Jordan was built between 1982 and 1989. It is capped by a blue mosaic dome beneath which 3,000 Muslims may offer prayer.
Abdullah was born on 30 January 1962 at Palestine Hospital in Al Abdali, Amman, to King Hussein and Hussein's British-born second wife, Princess Muna Al-Hussein (born Toni Avril Gardiner). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is the namesake of his paternal great-grandfather, Abdullah I , who founded modern Jordan.
Abdullah arrives in Amman 1920 Abdullah 1920 Abdullah I of Transjordan during the visit to Turkey with Turkish president Mustafa Kemal 1937. On 8 March 1920, Abdullah was proclaimed King of Iraq by the Iraqi Congress but he refused the position. After his refusal, his brother Faisal who had just been defeated in Syria, accepted the position.
In October 1948, King Abdullah took steps to further the annexation of territories in Palestine that Arab forces had captured in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The first step was a congress in Amman initiated by the Transjordanian government in which the delegates called for a wider Palestinian congress to declare Palestinian unity and acknowledge King Abdullah as King of Palestine.
Raghadan Palace (Arabic: قصر رغدان, romanized: Qaṣr Raġadān), the first Hashemite structure in Jordan, [1] was built by King Abdullah I, the founding monarch of the country. Upon his arrival in Amman, King Abdullah I initially resided in a modest Ottoman-style house near the Roman Theater.
Amman, and Jordan in general, is the Middle East's hub for medical tourism. Jordan receives the most medical tourists in the region and the fifth highest in the world. Amman receives 250,000 foreign patients a year and over $1 billion annually. [89]
King Abdullah II of Jordan and U.S. President George W. Bush in Raghadan Palace in 2006. Al-Maquar (Arabic: المقر, romanized: al-Maqarr, lit. 'the Headquarters') is a royal residential complex in Amman, Jordan. The compound spans 40 hectares and serves as the residence of the royal family of Jordan.
In October 2009, King Abdullah II inaugurated the JODDB Industrial Park (KADDB IP), which is the first comprehensive free zone in the Middle East, specialized in the defense industry and the manufacturing of vehicles. KADDB IP is a public limited liability company owned completely by the Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB).