untitled-24 I miss this feeling in other modern mosques which unfortunately became professional in the tall buildings, bizarre forms, and the building decoration without guidance or insight besides using the shiny aluminum windows and the carpets' colors that sparkle when reflecting the mosque high lights on every nook and corner. All this make you feel as if you are in a modern building and not in a mosque!! All this deprive the place from its holiness and godliness. untitled-13 I used to sit for some time to praise and glorify Allah then I go out walking to take a tour of the mosques near to Al Sayer or to the newly built ones in Al Mubarkia markets and the east area. I make sure to go to these old mosques, turning around them and look attentively at the beauty of their old building full of simplicity and at the standing minarets which declare that there is only one God. Most of these minarets were with one balcony of 20 meters height. These mosques were built from clay and rocks, and the ceilings were made from wood and Al Basgil and also from Al Bouari which is kind of thick straw mats. The building process was performed only by Kuwaiti workers mostly for free. untitled-12 The workers used to do it to seek the reward and recompense from Allah. The Kuwaitis adhered to building mosques, According to resources, before founding the Ministry of Religious Endowments in the fifties of the previous century. After the men of the neighborhood (Alfreeg) agree on building a mosque, they choose a trustworthy person to collect donations from their sources (the good & generous people). Most of these donations were the money given by will from the money of Funds and endowments. It is noticeable that most of the Kuwaiti mosques are named after those who donated to the mosque or who paid the largest share of the mosque's cost. The other mosques were named after their Imams or after an honorable family in the neighborhood. Old Mosques in Kuwait 3 My pure love for these blessed places was an interpretation and explanation for my decision of drawing and writing what I can about the history of building theses mosques, the most famous Imams and muezzins. I published the first episode in the colored annex of Al-Qabas Newspaper in 1987 in a weekly form. In spite of the smallness of the corner, it was met with approval from the readers. So that, I went on with this corner for months until one day Mr. Youseef Alsemet, the chief editor of Al-Qabas, called me and said "fellow Ali, where do you get the information you mention in the corner of Alderha Mosques?" I said "from two sources: Al-Qabas' archive in the information center and from the "The History of The Old Alderh Mosques" book for the researcher Adnan Alroomy" Mr Yousef said "some brothers in Al-Qabas' board of directors objected to some information you mentioned about some mosques… so in order to avoid the perplexity, you have to mention your sources" I said "ok". The following article was clearly annotated with the source of information yet I was called once more by Brother Yousef Alsemet and he said: "Bro Ali I would like you to stop writing about the Kuwaiti old mosques". I felt so sad from this decision which I did not fully understand its details and reasons but I realized that history has many points of view. untitled-1 After that my interest in the old mosques of Kuwait has stopped until one day I was captured by yearning when I passed by Saied Aloteeby mosque in Jableh area, opposite the old building of Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and I found that it is being repaired by the general secretary of the Ministry of Religious Endowments within a great project to maintain and repair traditional mosques. They formed a committee to rehabilitate old mosques. This committee was headed by the deputy general secretary of the endowments affairs and a membership represents the municipality of Kuwait, the National Center for Culture, Arts and Literature [the authority which is interested in antiquities] and with the presence of an expert from the UNESCO. This expert has visited Kuwait two times and made a field study about mosques as a first step to make decisions about maintaining and repairing all of them. So he classified 50 traditional mosques in different places in Kuwait with building dates range from the 18th century and the first half of the 20th century. The rehabilitation project was to start after 1995 for the ancient Kuwaiti mosques that were classified as one of the most important architectural monuments which have never been touched by the modern architecture's mattocks of demolition and building.