The brand new Grand Mosque, more precisely named Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, is for me the most interesting monument of the Emirate. It is so recent that work on the adjacent areas, gardens, roads and parks, was still going on when I visited it two months ago.
It can be freely visited by non muslin visitors at certain times and it is really worth to do it. My experience tells me how different from one country to another are the visiting policies for non Allah believers, till absolute forbidness in some ones.
Inlaid in marble vegetal decorations abound in the interior, which seems to be unusual for a mosque. A feeling of quietness and absence from day-to-day stress is part of the visitor's magic. As for the pride of this oil-rich Emirate, the mosque boosts three entries into the Guiness Book of records: the largest carpet in the world, the biggest chandelier and the largest dome of its kind.
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