Rumaithiya

Rumaithiya

الرميثية
Rumaythiyah
Rumaithiya الرميثية Rumaythiyah
City
	Rumaithiya
	Coordinates: 29°19′N 48°4′E / 29.317°N 48.067°E
Province	Hawalli Governorate
Government
• Type	Municipality
Area
• Metro	4.7 km2 (1.8 sq mi)
Population
• City	58,957
Time zone	GMT+3

Rumaithiya (Arabic: الرميثية Arabic:Ar-Rumaytheeyah Kuwaiti Arabic:Il-Irmeitheeyah ) is a residential area in Hawalli governorate, Kuwait, it's geographically divided into twelve blocks.

Blocks

Rumaithiya is officially divided into 12 blocks (قِطَع). Every block has a mosque and Rumaithiya Co-Op branch.

Landmarks

Masjids

Rumaithiya was designed to make a space for a branch of the Co-op and the supermarket. Due to this, there are 12 government-built masjids in Rumaithiya, with one more government-built masjid near the main Co-op. The biggest masjid, Masjid Maqamis is in Block 11

Husayniyat

Rumaithiya has the largest number of husayniyas in Kuwait with more than 70 Husayniya.

Rumaithiya Co-Op Society

Rumaithiya Co-Op Society is the official and only supermarket in the area.

12 Branches in every block
15,144+ Contributors

Sports area

Public park

Large public park in block 6
Normal public park in block 8 with grass stadium

Schools

13 schools (the largest number in Kuwait) excluding private schools and kindergartens

Religion

Most of Rumaithia's people are Shia Muslim.^[1]^[2] Due to this fact, there are a lot of husainiyas in the area.

References

^ https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/730/1/Taqi10.pdf
^ شيعة الكويت.. بين المشاركة والتمايز المذهبي Arabic CNN - 13 April 2007 - Access Date 30 January 2015.

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[1] ttps://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/730/1/Taqi10.pdf

[2] شيعة الكويت.. بين المشاركة والتمايز المذهبي Arabic CNN - 13 April 2007 - Access Date 30 January 2015.

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