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Newly built mosque in Abu Dhabi , home of world's largest carpet.
estimated construction cost : $500 million
Now the third largest mosque in the world, Sheikh Zayed Mosque is an impressive site on the road between Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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بــن مـحـمد ضـقـت وش بـيـدي ,, ذا نــشـيـدي مــن بــردوده !!
ود مــنـهـو صفــوة الــغيــدي ,, حــط فـي قــلبي لـظى وقــوده !!
مـا عــلم ضـيـمي و تسـهــيـدي ,, يـوم نــض الـركب بــبعوده !!
ســار مــا ريــع لـي الـهـيـدي ,, عقـب لاما الوصـل وعـهـوده !!
"(كـان بـا يـرضـي حــســاســيــدي ,, ذيــك والــلــه عــيــلـــتـن عــــوووووووده )"
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الشيخ زايد) in Abu Dhabi is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the eighth largest mosque in the world. I will be posting a set of 13 shots taken of this amazing architecture.
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La mezquita Sheikh Zayed es una mezquita situada en Abu Dabi, en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Su nombre hace honor al primer presidente de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Zayed ibn Sultán Al Nahayan, quien falleciera en 2004. El proyecto se inició en 1998 por iniciativa del propio Sheikh Zayed.[1] La construcción terminó en 2007, después de siete años de construcción y un coste de 600 millones de dólares. Es la mayor mezquita de los EAU y la ter.cera más grande del mundo.
Fuente: www.wikipedia.es
We made a day trip to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE and also had the luck to visit the Sheikh Zayed Mosque - the 3rd largest mosque in the world that can accommodate up to 40.000 worshippers...(view on black)
The Sheikh Zayed mosque is considered to be the sixth largest mosque in the world =)
it's located in the captial city of the UAE, Abu Dhabi <3
" It is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan the founder and the first President of the United Arab Emirates, who is also buried there.
The Sheikh Zayed Mosque also has some world records made.
The carpet to be laid out on the vast expanse is the "World's Largest Carpet" made by Iran's Carpet Company and designed by Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi. This carpet measures 5,627 square meters, and was made by around 1,200 weavers, 20 technicians, and 30 workers. The weight of this carpet is 47 tons - 35 tons of wool, and 12 tons of cotton. There are 2,268,000 knots within the carpet.
The other world record this mosque holds is for the largest chandelier. There are seven chandeliers imported from Germany and are copper and gold-plated. The largest chandelier has a 10 meter diameter and a 15 meter height.
The Mosque is large enough to accommodate more than 30,000 worshipers.
There are four minarets on the four corners of the mosque which rise about 107 meters in height. There are 57 domes covering the outside yard and the main building as well. The domes are decorated with white marble and the interior decoration is made of the marble.
The courtyard is paved with the best floral marble designs and measures about 17,000 square meters. "
- wikipedia.org
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more photos of this amazing mosque inshallah soOn ^.^ you all should visit it's BREATHTAKING !! ^.~
oh oh ! one more thing ^.^ the pattern i used for the border is from www.squidfingers.com/