More properly called the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque after the founding president of the UAE who is buried in a mausoleum next to the mosque. This was one of the places that we never quite got around to visiting and yet it is one of the most most obvious tourist destinations.

Nancy Fahmy is a CfBT colleague of Sue’s. Shareif, her husband, works at the US embassy. He seems to have an encyclopedic memory for facts and figures and so was a perfect tour guide for the visit.

If you are interested in some facts and figures go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Zayed_Mosque

We visited around 11am on a Saturday so the place was pretty busy. The women had to cover up with an abaya and shayla so whenever I stopped to take a photograph I had to look for Shareif as the two women were impossible to spot amongst all the other ladies in black with headscarfs.

The photo collection is partly from this day and partly from a week later when I revisited early one morning after dropping Sue at school.