More than 1.26 million people have visited Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque, which has been a leading destination for visitors of the major international events hosted by the UAE.
The events include Expo 2020 Dubai, the FIFA Club World Cup, the fifth UMEX and SIMTEX, the International Defence Industry Technology and Security Conference, Global Goals Week, the Food for Future Summit, and the World Space Week.
The mosque was visited by many high-level delegations, and the number of delegation members from around the world received by the mosque was 2,452, who included presidents of states, ministers of foreign affairs, other ministers, ambassadors, consuls and speakers of parliaments.
The mosque also hosted 51 visits from local and international academic institutions, in addition to 293 visitors representing various international media outlets, including television stations in Argentina, Ecuador and Luxembourg. Brazil’s official television channel hosted a live broadcast from the mosque, highlighting its artistic aspects and its values of peace and coexistence.
The number of visitors who came for prayers at the mosque during this period totaled over 228,000 people.
Field teams were formed to offer the best services to visitors, as well as specialist action teams that coordinated the schedules of delegations, in addition to part-time cultural tour guide teams.
The mosque sponsored 2,596 cultural tours in Arabic, English, Spanish and Korean, and the number of reservations by tourism companies reached 13,667, involving 193,501 visitors.
The flow of visitors to the mosque helped promote its message of coexistence, tolerance and peace from the UAE to the rest of the world, based on the values of the Founding Father, the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, which are being strengthened and promoted by the UAE’s leadership, media reports said.
The Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre (SZGMC), an affiliate to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, was established to represent a cultural and intellectual platform formed on the basis of cultural and national values.