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Al-Sada, Yemen
City of Sada (Sa'da, السدة), Yemen.
Description
In the south, southeast of Kitab. In Arabic السدة.
Sada was a city as opposed to the villages which surrounded it. It contained two synagogues, an upper (Aliyah) and a lower (Sufla). According to a former resident, the lower one utilized the Shami prayer rite while the upper used both Shami and Baladi. Besides for the two synagogues, there was also a midrash in the city which was located adjacent to the homes of Hayyim Yehudah and Harun Sa'id. The cemetery was located outside the city, and there were no headstones or other markers in the cemetery indicating where people were buried and it was also not the custom to visit the deceased at any point after the burial.
عاش يهودين في هذا الموضع في القرن العشرين.
Al-Sada, Yemen
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Sources
Interviews of Yefet Wana and Z. Hobab.
See also, pages 388-390 in the Encyclopedia of Yemeni Jewish Community אנציקלופדיה לקהילות היהודיות בתימן published by Machon Leheker Hachmei Teiman.