Al Malaz

Al-Malaz (Arabic: حي الملز, romanized: ḥaī al-Malaz), formerly al-Riyadh al-Jadidah (lit. The New Riyadh) and the Red Sea neighborhood, is a commercial and residential neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the seat of the homonymous sub-municipality of al-Malaz. Named after the al-Malaz Square (now King Abdullah Park), it was built in the 1950s by King Saud bin Abdulaziz as a housing project for government employees and was later developed into a full-fledged district. The neighborhood has a large presence of overseas Syrian community alongside native Saudi nationals.

It is the very first modern locality in the city, alongside the al-Nassiriyah district, which replaced the local Najdi architecture with a modern one. The area is also popular for hosting several iconic landmarks, supermarkets, streets and offices of government ministries.