Alwi Bin Sumayt house 
Shibam, Yemen

The Alwi Bin Sumayt house is a walk-up residential building in the Islamic community of Shibam a 1,700 year old world heritage city in Yemen. Shibam buildings are classified as world heritage for their unique ancient mud-brick high rise buildings. The precise location of the Alwi Bin Sumayt house within Shibam is unknown but due to the fact that Shibam is a uniformly designed and an inter-connectedly linked city.