Jazakallah Khair Brother mahuruf! These pictures are absolutely astonishing and it is all to Allah Ta'ala for preserving these sacred places for the present generation and Inshallah Ta'ala for the future generations as well.
^ Those houses aren't around.. Construction and expansion of the Masjid al Haram caused for them to take those houses down.
And there was a roof back then. Just when the pictures were taken, maybe it was during construction, and they removed the roof. Or after soo many years, these houses do start to crumble, and the roof crumbled... (Or was the roof of palm leaves? Because I think that was the roof they had in Madeenah..) I dunno.. Allahu a'lam.
Jazakallah khair for sharing... SubhanAllah so simple..yet we go for fancy and big houses... ffended:
SubhanAllah all praise be due to Allah for preserving these sites ...look at what was available then and pity how we live life according to the materialistic point of view ...JazakAllah Khairun for sharing Allah bless you WalaykumAsalaam x