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United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi

July 2012
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: carpet detail.
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: carpet detail.

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  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: detail of column showing gemstone inlay. Turquoise, mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli as well as various coloured marbles can be seen here. The mosque contains over a thousand columns - each one inlaid in this manner to a height of more than two metres.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: white marble wall inlaid with various coloured marbles in a floral design.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: shadowed colonnade.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: colonnade and courtyard... white marble and palm frond capitals, gleaming under a midday sun.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: moulded ceiling detail and dome interior with Qur'anic inscription in Khufic Script.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: colonnade corner.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: view from main prayer hall anteroom towards main entrance portal.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: carpet detail.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: Interior of the central dome, showing the world's largest chandelier, by Swarowski; it has a diameter of approximately 8 metres.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: Interior view from beneath the world's largest chandelier. The world's third largest chandelier can be seen at the far end.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: interior view. The carpet is 5 square kilometres in extent - the world's largest single floor covering - and took 1200 Iranian weavers 2 years to complete
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: main prayer hall interior.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: interior with chandelier.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: doorway detail.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: colonnade.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: minaret and colonnade.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: archway detail of main entrance vestibule.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: view of minaret through main courtyard entrance portal.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: main entrance vestibule, with view towards main prayer hall portal.
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: courtyard and entrance to main prayer hall.
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