The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, popularly called the Grand Mosque by local residents, is seen as a construction to ‘unite the world’, using artisans and materials from countries such as...
The Ka’ba today stands in the midst of an open courtyard known as the al-masjid al-haram, the ‘sanctuary’. The cubical (the word Ka’ba means “cube”), flat-roofed building rises fifty feet from a narrow...
The main prayer hall features the world’s largest chandelier under the main dome – being 10 metres in diameter, 15 metres in height and weighing over nine tonnes. The Mosque’s seven gold-coloured chandeliers,...
The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque features 82 domes of Moroccan design and all decorated with white marble. The main dome’s outer shell measures 32.8 metres in diameter and stands at a height...
By any measure, it's a marvel—as a work of art, as an article of devotion, as a testament to the richness of hand-made craftwork. But who's going to take it outside and beat it? ...
1- The largest mosque of the UAE.
2- The10th largest mosques in the world.
3- Completion time 12 years.
4- Estimated Cost of Dh2.167 billion.
5- a capacity to accommodate 40,000 worshippers,
6-...
The Mosque’s awesome exterior is complimented by an equally impressive interior design. Mosque’s interior walls have been decorated with gold-glass mosaic featuresThe prayer halls are adorn by Italian...
As the car drove through the colossal entrance gate, the first butterflies began to wobble in my stomach. The monochromatic evening sky seemed to summon itself into the lofty minarets covered with by-passing...
