Report of the joint World Heritage Centre-ICOMOS-ICCROM Reactive monitoring mission to the World Heritage Site of The Bahla Fort and Oasis (Sultanate of Oman), 06-10 March 2017

Abstract

The mission team acknowledges efforts made by the State Party to address the World Heritage Committee Decision (40 COM 7B.26) regarding the finalisation of the Management Plan, and the development of proposals for a minor boundary modification to the buffer zone, and the documentation of conservation and management actions; and also notes progress with studies for the protection of Bahla Fort; the Bahla market (souq) restoration; the Sabah Salem Gate intervention; and the intervention in the Mausoleum of Shaikh Bin Baraka and the Alkhair mosque.