Walk around Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Area – Abu Dhabi
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (جَامِع ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد ٱلْكَبِيْر) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.
It is the country’s largest mosque, and is the key place of worship for daily Islamic prayers. There is a smaller replica of this mosque in Surakarta, a city in Indonesia.
The Grand Mosque was constructed between 1994 and 2007 and was inaugurated in December 2007.
The main axis of the building is rotated about 12° south of true west, aligning it in the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The project was launched by the late president of the U.A.E., Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who wanted to establish a structure that would unite the cultural diversity of the Islamic world with the historical and modern values of architecture and art.
In 2004, Sheikh Zayed died and was buried in the courtyard of the mosque.
The mosque was designed under the management of the Syrian architect Youssef Abdelke, and three other architectural designers from Syria who completed the design and worked on developing it, Basem Barghouti, Moataz Al-Halabi, and Imad Malas.
Video Source: Ramadan 2024 First Juma Prayer in Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque from Sohailraza Vlogs on Youtube ⁄ CC BY
