Record stores in Sharjah

Vinyl hunting in Sharjah, Sharjah? There are 7 record shops mapped here. That's 7 record shops mapped around Sharjah. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Sharjah (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Maurice Shehata and Montarbo, plus World Music Centre. If a record shop's missing from Sharjah's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Sharjah record lineup

7 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Sharjah

None of the 7 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

There's a cluster: 3 of them sit on Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

The Sharjah record crawl

The efficient Sharjah record crawl strings these together: Maurice Shehata on 15b Street, Montarbo on Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, World Music Centre on Al Wahda Street, Thomsun Music on Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, Barada Music Institute on Street 58, Fann Al Sout Music on Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, and دار السعد on شارع 1 — 7 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Sharjah

How the regulars work Sharjah's bins:

• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve at Maurice Shehata. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Check for box sets at Montarbo. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.
• Check the bargain wall rhythm. Shops restock the cheap sections on cycles. Ask when — that's when the fresh bargains land.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Sharjah — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Sharjah can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 7 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.