The British Prime Minister visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, accompanied by the UAE Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mansoor Belhoul Al Falasi, the United Kingdom Ambassador to the UAE, Edward Hobart, and the accompanying delegation.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the accompanying delegation, accompanied by the Director General of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center, Dr. Yousef Al-Obaidli, toured the mosque’s halls and external corridors, where they learned about the mosque’s cultural message calling for coexistence, tolerance, and openness to others, emanating from the exploits and values ​​of the founding father, and the great role that it played. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center aims to introduce tolerant Islamic culture and enhance cultural communication between cultures and peoples around the world.

They also learned about the history of the founding of the great edifice, the aesthetics of the mosque, the marvelous arts of Islamic architecture that were clearly evident in all its corners, the unique collections it contains, and the most wonderful works of Islamic civilization throughout the ages, of arts and engineering designs that came together despite their differences and diversity in the design of the mosque. To reflect the beauty and harmony of cultures in one creative work.

On the sidelines of the visit, Keir Starmer said: “The United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom share a common history and a deep relationship dating back centuries, and I had the honor of visiting the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, whose influential efforts in promoting common human values ​​​​among religions and cultures, which strengthen the bonds of interdependence between all, as People from all over the world come together peacefully around its aesthetics and its cultural and civilizational role, in which I also felt the impact of the ongoing cooperation between the UAE and the United Kingdom in this field.”