By now you will have gathered that no expense has been spared in creating this beautiful mosque. The cost is estimated to be at least 500 million American dollars? I guess Solomon's Temple would have cost a similar amount irt the shekels. The Abu Dhabi Mosque took 7 years to built and its design has been based on the huge dome of the Targ Mahal in India. This beautiful unique and mosque is also a most modern design where Islamic symbols and materials have been incorporated with the latest technology and energy saving techniques like the recycling of desulinated water, having underground entrances and the use of solar energy to power the electricity and provide air conditioning.
Etched and coloured glass has also been used extensively throughout the mosque to provide good lighting to provide decorations. All the glass was manufactured in Italy at the famous Barona (The Glass Island) in Venice. We visited this glass making island a few years ago and were fascinated with the variety and process of glass making that takes place on Barona Island.
We spent over 2 hours at the Mosque and then we went to visit a small museum which had a good display of artefacts, photographs and life size models of the island families who lived on some of the islands of Abu Dhabi before they were redeveloped into residential and commercial areas now populated by thousands. There were many photographs of previous Sultans who have rule Abu Dhabi on the walls of the museum. We also saw a photograph of a scale model of the Abu Dhabi Mosque which we visited today. The King and his officials can be seen looking very proud of the mosque model displayed before them
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