The Ablution area of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. This place of worship and learning is a gem of mixing modern art and architecture with the styles found in the Mughal and Ottoman empires. The mosque can accommodate up to 40,000 worshipers, making it one of the largest in the world. The carpet in the main prayer hall is considered the largest carpet ever made. It costed more than half a billion $'s to make this masterpiece. All these facts aside, the most interesting one I found on my last visit there was that there are live reciters of the Holy Quran that change every one-two hours and the recitation is 24/7 365 days a year. This was the wish of the person the mosque is named after, the first President of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan who is also buried in this location | #MasjidSeries #inAbuDhabi #PPWallHunter @passionpassport
27 June, 2015
