The poorest country in this region, Yemen has a unique architectural legacy which is being damaged and destroyed by warfare or left to fall into ruin by neglect. Three of the 52 World Heritage Sites listed by the cultural organisation, UNESCO, as "in danger" are in Yemen: Sanaa's Old City and its 7th century Great Mosque, regarded as the first to be built outside Mecca and
The poorest country in this region, Yemen has a unique architectural legacy which is being damaged and destroyed by warfare or left to fall into ruin by neglect. Three of the 52 World Heritage Sites listed by the cultural organisation, UNESCO, as "in danger" are in Yemen: Sanaa's Old City and its 7th century Great Mosque, regarded as the first to be built outside Mecca and