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Architecturally analysis show that Al Rasheed street contains of five main building styles :
• Mosques such as Al Midan Mosque , Al Ahmediya Mosque , Haider Khana Mosque , Al Merjan Mosque and Sayid Sultan Ali Mosque ( from north to south )
• Early traditional buildings up to 1920 , mostly in brickwork with traditional detailing and decoration
• Art Noveau shaped buildings from the late 1920 › s and early 1930 › s ; brickworks with steel structural joints and with Arabic and European floriated designs and decorations
• Art Décor buildings typical for the 1930 › s and early 1940 › s ; brickworks with steel structural joints , but more rectilinear lines of decoration and iron balustrades
• Modern architecture style buildings from the 1950 › s to 1980 › s mostly in concrete with no arcades and high of storeys
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