Dumistan


Dumistan or Dabistan is a coastal village situated on the western shore of Bahrain. It is situated to the north of Karzakan and west of Hamad Town, in the Northern Governorate administrative region of the country.

Etymology

There are two possible roots for the village's name.
The first is that it originates in the term "Dabistan" and is therefore and alteration of it, the term "Dabistan" is a Persian word that typically means "school" or "place of learning".Dab refers to "learning" or "education".-stan is a suffix meaning "place" or "land of".
So, Dabistan can be understood as "the place of learning" or simply "a school".
It is also possibly the former location of Al-Ittihad school, although the remains of the school are in Manimal.
The other purposed origin is that it means, although this is not supported by any major sources.

Housing Facilities

  1. In 1983, the old Dumistan housing project was established.
  2. In 2001, the new Dumistan housing project was established.
  3. In 2009, a new housing project was created east of the new housing units.

Institutions

Mosques