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Joaan station

metro station in Qatar

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ108463892 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joaan station on the Gold Line of Qatar's Doha Metro serves Al Sadd district.

History

The station was opened to the public on 21 November 2019 along with ten other Gold Line stations, over six months after the opening of the network's first 13 stations on the Red Line.

Station facilities

Facilities in the station include a prayer room and restrooms, as well as several retail stores.

Connections

One route of metrolink, which is the Doha Metro's free feeder bus network, services the station:

M314, which serves Al Mirqab Al Jadeed and As Salatah.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Joaan station” as metro station in Qatar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Joaan, station and metro.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Joaan, station and metro providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Joaan station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Qatar” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108463892. Authority coordinates are 25.281, 51.497. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Joaan station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.