Official Name: | Sawaber |
Other Name: | Sawabir, Sawaabir, Al-Sawaber |
Native Name: | الصوابر |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Kuwait |
Subdivision Name: | Kuwait |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Capital Governorate |
Subdivision Type2: | Area |
Subdivision Name2: | Sharq |
Population Total: | 16,000 |
Sawabir (Arabic: الصوابر|aṣ-Ṣawābir) is in an old district in Sharq area in Capital Governorate in Kuwait. It is a large, mainly residential district of Kuwait City. Sharq's total population stood at about 16,000[1]
The city is home to the Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq Mosque, one of the country's oldest Shiite mosque's, which was the target of a terrorist attack in 2015.