Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Photos
Name: Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Where: Abu Dhabhi (UAE)
Opened : Dec 2007
SIze: The total building area exceeds 22,412 m², about the size of five football fields.
Capacity: 40,000 worshippers
The Sheikh Zayed Mosque is named after the United Arab Emirates' late founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, is not off-limits to non-Muslims. The biggest mosque in the UAE and considered within the Top 10 biggest mosques in the world.
The mosque has four minarets on the four corners of the mosque with a height of about 107 metres each. The mosque consists of 57 domes covering the outside yards, main and side entrances. All the domes of the mosque are decorated with white marble and the interior decor was made of the white gypsum. The best types of the colored floral marble and mosaics have been used to pave the courtyard of the mosque which is about 17,000 square metres.
The mosque has achieved three entries into the Guinness Book of World Records with the largest carpet, the biggest chandelier as well as the largest dome of its kind in the world
Biggest Carpet: The centrepiece is a 6,000 square metre (64,583 square feet) hand-made Persian carpet, said to be the biggest in the world. 1200 Iranian women spent 2 years weaving the carpet, weighing in at a huge 45 tonnes. The carpet covers the floor of the main prayer hall at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, which can accommodate up to 9,000 faithful.
Biggest Dome: The main dome is also "the biggest" mosque dome in the world, 75 metres (246 feet) high with a 32.2-metre (105.6 feet) diametre.
Biggest Chandelier: One of seven German-made chandeliers. It is 10-metre (32.8 feet) tall, 10-metre wide and weighs nine tonnes.
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Further Reading...
Arabian Business Coverage on the Sheikh Zayed Grand MosqueUAE - The Capital basks in it's glory
22 comments - Click link below to add yours:
Wow!! These pictures are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!! I have never seen or heard of this mosque before untill I stumbled on this page, I wonder how much it must have cost!?
Beautiful Mosque, music to my eyes, next time im in Abu Dhabi I will definitely visit.
May Allah Almighty keep this masjid and all the mosque's in the world 'abaad' (packed with worshippers). Ameen
well it is most amazing sight to see. i was amazed to such a wonder . i would like to say that everyone in the world should watch this amzing mosque
I have linked to this page on my website, best I have found !
Visited this Mosque 26/10/2008. Absolutely stunning! Words and photos cannot describe how wonderful it is. It has to be seen. To answer Shaheen, I believe it cost in excess of 2.4 billion Dhirams.
oooooouff thats a fair bit of money but its for a good cause lol beautiful but i have to say imam reza mosque in iran is better
maybe not
wonderful.........
i never see before until my life this mosque very nice. and i pray to my allah this mosque is always beautiful and stand in every situation
Subhaanallaah!
Indeed it is very beautiful. May Allaah fill the mosque with true believers and let the charming atmosphere prevail in the Mosque. Hope there is no competition among Muslim countries so that no one boasts that we have the most beautiful mosque and so on. May Allaah protect all Muslims from Riya. Wassalaam
subhanallah!!!
one of the best masjid i saw in picture.now i have a dream taht after makka and madina masjid i wanna visit this mosque.may allah subhanallahu wataala give me taufiq. amen. my salam to all the muslim brother's of the whole universe.may allah allmighty guide us to right path, saving from saytan. amen
Indeed it is a beautiful masjid built in this contemporary age. The plight of muslims is horrible looking around. Who really needs massive expenses on masjid. This is more to do with self promotion than the love of Allah(s). These paper tigers who occupy muslim lands know how to please naive 'muslims'. Just look at ethipoia for example, there is drought and hunger all over. Remember it was this very place[then known as Abyssinia] where fleeing muslims found refuge. Collectively we have forsaken the teachings of the Prophet(s) and collectively will be the retribution.
I was in the UAE and had to visit the Mosque as I was in Abu Dhabi. The mosque is beautiful and vey big Mashallah. However, the construction of the mosque was very similay to that of the Taj Mahal in India and there were many signs of Indian architectural influences.
Another major concern was please treat this place as a Mosque-a place of Worship and refrain from acts of ignorance.
May Allah keep this place of a means of worship and also bless the soul of Sheikh Zayed. Ameen
This is one of the most miracle my eye has never seen..its located in the capital city of United Arab emirates and Shiekh Zayed rest in this Mosque.
May Allah almighty guard all the mosque .
Mashallah , beautiful indeed. In response to the comment re reza mosque in iran is better – I must say we should refrain from comparing one to the other. May all mosques be full of woshipers and not be regarded as museums. And a note to the people who wish to visit, whilst there is nothing wrong with that, we as Muslims have been told to make only 3 journeys when travelling to visit a mosque and that is the grand mosque in Mecca, grand mosque in Medina, and Al Aqsa Mosque.
This Mosque is truly beautiful and rather than commenting on how much has been spent and second guessing the reasons behind building it, we should rather embrace the fact it has been built and on such a grand scale too. This surely is a great thing in todays days and age where towers and hotels seem to eb given priority. And lastly why do we always say money could have been better spent on Ethopia for example. How do we know the authorities have not given the Ethiopians aid? Infact as Muslims none of us should know what the other gives in aid or charity, so much so that our “left hand should not know what the right hand gives”. Let us give credit where credit is due. I for one will visit Abu Dhabhi as a holiday, and will visit the mosque inshallah.
Does it make a difference if i pray in This mosque or in my local mosque(A very old and simple one)???
assalamu alaikum to everyone
soooo beautiful subhanAllaahhh
I visited it last week - stunningly beautiful - it should be the eigth wonder of the world.
Jummah Mashallah but still the architectral.
Style looks inadequate" why illstrated. Interiors the exterior is average...square
footage. Should been increase for pray hall.
And besides there so much land in UAE. The
could build 500 Jummah mosque: Before the
plan. Of 2030 there a brother from Turkmastian
and Pakistan. Working to build an Perian Mugal
style for 400,000. Yes with 2 court yards
to accomdate 100,000.
MASHALLAH....SUBHANALLAH....it's totally A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!
I think thousands of mosques could have been built all around the world instead of building sheikh zayed mosque.. this is some kind of wasting... 2.4 billion dirhams is needed to construct it... that is a lot of money...
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