Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Fujairah

Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Fujairah is one of the emirate’s principal religious landmarks and a major work of contemporary mosque architecture. The mosque opened to worshippers for Eid Al Adha prayers on 24 September 2015. Contemporary reporting records a construction cost of about AED 210 million, an area of roughly 39,000 square metres and capacity for approximately 28,000 worshippers.

The building has 65 domes and six minarets and is faced in extensive white stone and marble, giving it a monumental appearance in the centre of Fujairah. Fujairah Tourism describes the mosque as the UAE’s second-largest and presents it as a leading cultural attraction; that description is retained here as an attributed tourism-authority claim rather than as a permanent national ranking.

The mosque is first and foremost an active Islamic place of worship, serving congregational and festival prayers. Fujairah Tourism currently lists daytime visitor hours, but the same tourism page retains older pre-opening wording, so this record does not treat those hours as fully reliable for planning.

Visitors should confirm current public access locally before travel, especially around Friday prayers, Ramadan and major Islamic festivals. No UNESCO designation or separately documented miracle tradition was identified in the authoritative sources reviewed.