Al-Masajid (Old South Arabian Maʿrabum,[1] Arabic: المساجد, romanized: al-Masājid) is an archaeological site from the Old South Arabian-Sabaean period, which lies at the edge of the Yemeni highland-basin, below the Jabal Ṣaḥl mountain range[2] near the border with Qataban.
[4][3] Jacqueline Pirenne, an expert on Semitic languages, was able to use inscriptions of the site to determine how the visual depiction of Old South Arabian letters changed over time.
[6] The Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Fakhry, who first described the temple, was able to show that it had been a rectangular structure, of a sort with many parallels.
The temple was an active religious site for centuries, so it frequently had to be renovated and modified in response to new trends.
[6] The temple would have contained over-life-size, metal animal sculptures, as well as votive gifts and dedications in the form of inscribed stelae and other figural images.