Grand Mosque

About Grand Mosque

Mosque in Dubai

The Grand Mosque of Dubai is one of the oldest and most prominent mosques in the city, standing in Bur Dubai between the old Textile Souk and the Dubai Museum in Al Fahidi Fort, a few steps from the Creek. First built in 1900, when it also served as a Quran school and the centre of religious life, it was demolished and rebuilt in 1960 and rebuilt again in 1998 in its present form, which holds about 1,200 worshippers. Its most striking feature is the tall minaret modelled on traditional lighthouse towers, one of the tallest in Dubai and visible across Bur Dubai, together with its many domes, restrained sandstone ornament and stained-glass windows. The mosque is the hub of religious and cultural life in old Dubai, surrounded by souks and heritage houses. It stands beside an old Hindu temple in the neighbouring lanes, so that worshippers of both faiths gather in the same spot, a picture of the coexistence of communities in commercial Dubai for a century.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates