Chapter 209: The Great Mosque
After eating at noon, he went back to his room to change his clothes, he knew that going to the mosque was very regular, and he planned to wear a white suit and white shirt to visit.
As soon as he changed his clothes, his mobile phone rang, and when he saw that it was the local phone number in Abu Dhabi +9712XXXXXXXX, he didn't remember who else he knew in the local area, so he picked up the phone.
As soon as I picked it up, there was a hearty laugh on the receiver of the phone, "Brother, you came to Abu Dhabi without notifying me, do you look down on me as a brother, if I hadn't seen you saving our country's airline on the TV show, I wouldn't have known you were coming! ”
Zheng Xudong heard that this was Rashid who he met in a New York restaurant, and later played with him in the IPSC club, and he remembered that Rashid said that his home was from Abu Dhabi. Listening to Rashid's complaint on the phone, he quickly said: "It's my brother's fault, I forgot." I am now living in the Palace Suite at the Palace Hotel. Was... Before he could finish speaking, Rashid on the other side of the phone said, "You wait for me, and I'll be there for you in ten minutes." With that, he hung up the phone.
Zheng Xudong thought to himself, "It's still so urgent!" and he went downstairs to wait for him at the door of the hotel.
Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, a blue and gray Lamborghini roared and stopped beside him at the door of the hotel with a beautiful flick, and then the swallow wing door opened, and Rashid appeared in front of him in a beach suit printed with colorful flowers today, and took off the sunglasses with green reflective lenses and hung on the large flower shirt on his chest.
stepped forward to give Zheng Xudong a big hug, and then slapped his fist on his chest, and said, "You kid won't squeak when he comes, and when will you fly the plane?"
Zheng Xudong jokingly said: "The main reason is that I have played a simulation driving game of SONY before, so I dare to fly a plane, in that case, I am also a duck on the shelf! You say brother, I'm amazing!"
Rashid looked at him with his mouth wide open in surprise, and then suddenly burst out laughing, laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten up, and pointed at him with his finger, "You're too bold!" laughed for a while before he said, "What are you going to do in this white dress?"
"Brother Rashid, I'm going to visit your Great Mosque. Then at seven o'clock in the evening your president will have a welcoming ceremony, and in the afternoon there will be those two arrangements for the time being. ”
After hearing this, Rashid nodded and said, "When you come here, you should go to see our big mosque, but it will only take an hour to visit that place." Then go to my house and sit for a while. Since you came, you will go to recognize the door, and you will not have to live in this hotel again when you come again, in fact, you have lived more times, and that's it. Let's go, get in the car, I'll be your guide today. ”
In fact, for Zheng Xudong, his height of 1.88 meters is really not suitable for sitting in a supercar, the space in the car is too small, the chassis is low as sitting on the ground and driving, and his pair of long legs are also troublesome, and he is almost up to his chest when he bends up, he said to Rashid: "Big brother, what do you say about this supercar, the space is so small, you see how aggrieved I am sitting here." Also, even if the Lamborghini can run at speeds above 450 per hour, you don't dare to run, and it doesn't reflect its performance at all. If you want me to say, you might as well drive a cool SUV or a big pickup truck!"
"Who says it's not, in fact, I'm not going to be able to drive it, but I can't help it, everyone opens this, you don't open it, it seems like life is going to be difficult and you can't go on, so you can only follow the crowd (four sounds). You haven't seen the traffic jam here, the scene is spectacular, it's too graphic, it's a supercar expo, I tell you, you can't go to any auto expo in the world to see so many supercars at the same time. He said helplessly and proudly.
From the Palace Hotel to the Grand Mosque is not far away, but it is not close, it takes nearly half an hour to drive, don't look at Rashid to drive a Lamborghini, but he doesn't dare to drive fast, he said that it is because there are too many good cars, so the traffic laws in Middle Eastern countries are particularly strict, once the punishment for violating the law will make you wake up in your dreams. So many people don't want their cars after they are impounded. This was also said by Zheng Xudong, Dubai's Minister of Transport.
drove to the Grand Mosque in a regular manner, not to mention that Rashid does have the talent to be a tour guide, and the introduction is no worse than a tour guide.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque was completed on Eid al-Adha in 2007, in fact, the full name of the mosque is Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Nahyan Mosque, the name of our first president of the UAE. Rashid looked in reverence when he said the name.
This mosque was also built in honor of our late UAE president, and there is his mausoleum in the temple. So also known as Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Adong, you also know that our Middle Eastern name is too long, so locals and tourists are referred to the temple as the Grand Mosque Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque in 2007 Eid al-Adha was completed, in fact, the full name of this mosque is Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Nahyan Mosque (Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Nahyan Mosque) Sheikh Zayed BinSultan Nahyan is the name of the first president of the UAE. The mosque was also built in memory of the late UAE president and houses his mausoleum. It is also known as the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, but because the name may be too long, locals and tourists alike call it the Grand Mosque, which is the largest mosque in the seven emirates of the UAE and the eighth largest in the world.
Rashid can't wear a beach suit to enter, so the mosque has prepared traditional clothes to wear when entering the temple in order to take care of tourists, Rashid said that this is also the only mosque we have here that is open to tourists, and women were only allowed to enter through the main entrance of the mosque in the first two years, but women must wear black robes when entering to enter.
Zheng Xudong didn't expect that there would be so many rules here.
Rashid did not wear the clothes prepared for tourists in the mosque, after all, no one wears it and is not necessarily hygienic, he took out a set of white robes from the front spare compartment of his Lamborghini (95% of the supercar is rear-wheel drive, so the spare compartment is in the front, in fact, it should be called the front trunk) and put it on his body, and saw that Zheng Xudong was wearing and did not prepare clothes for him.
The design of the entire mosque fully reflects the style of the first religion. The temple was built with raw materials from Italy, Germany, Morocco, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Greece and the United Arab Emirates.
Rashid said the mosque covers an area of 22,000 square meters and is designed with 82 circular domes, with the main dome 85 meters high and as many as 1,100 pillars decorated with gold. "Of course these pillars are gilded, they can't be pure gold pillars," Rashid teased in a whisper beside him.
The mosque can accommodate up to 40,000*** people praying at the same time. The colors on the floor are not painted with paint, but are made from natural materials such as lazuli, red agate, amethyst, abalone shellfish, etc. Zheng Xudong was actually shocked as soon as he entered the worship hall, the floor tiles of Yishui were printed floor tiles, and the flowers printed on them he didn't recognize, but they were very bright, just like flowers, they didn't look like they were printed on the floor tiles at all. It turned out to be made of these precious materials.
"All people who enter the mosque, regardless of whom, must take off their shoes, it is a rule. Rashid said in his ear. He said that many foreigners broke in regardless of our national customs, were deported by us, and would be punished by confiscating a certain amount of property. So because of this, we also confiscated a lot of property.
Zheng Xudong said: "That's deserved, we Chinese people have a saying called following the local customs, which means that we must respect the customs and traditions of the local people." ”
"Yes, Huaxia has always been an old friend of our Middle Eastern countries! We welcome you to visit us. Rashid said.
"Listen to your tone, big brother, are you the UAE Minister of Tourism?" he joked. After speaking, he felt right, and when he saw that Rashid's face was not good-looking, he knew that he might have said the wrong thing, "Big brother, if the brother says something wrong, don't pick on the brother's reason!"
Rashid's face immediately turned cloudy, "It's the eldest brother who is in love, and things at work are not going well, let's not talk about this today, let's play first." Then he continued to play the role of director.
The mosque cost $5.5 billion, 46 tons of gold alone were used, and the entire complex was wrapped in white marble from Greece, which is very solemn. Zheng Xudong saw this before he came in, the main gate of the big mosque was facing the south, and when he came, it was noon, and the sun shone on the white marble, making the whole mosque look very holy! Really, this was Zheng Xudong's true thoughts at that time.
Rashid said the elaborate carvings came from the work of Chinese craftsmen. The Persian carpet in the main hall is known as the world's largest hand-woven carpet, with an area of 5,627 square meters, weighing 47 tons, costing 5.8 million US dollars, and was woven by 1,200 Iranian workers using 38 tons of wool for a year and a half. The most amazing thing for Zheng Xudong is that there is not a single crack on the carpet of nearly 6,000 square meters.
Hanging in the hall are seven of the world's largest gold-plated brass crystal chandeliers, which are custom-made in Germany and are worth tens of millions of dollars. It is the world's leading mosque chandelier. In the worship hall, the color of the chandelier changes from elegant blue to dazzling gold. There are seven chandeliers in the Great Mosque of Abizabi, seven of which are set with thousands of Swarovski crystals on a gilded base. The largest one, hanging from the main dome of the worship hall, is the world's largest chandelier.
The four corners of the Grand Mosque have four minarets, also known as Call-riah or Bunker, which are 107 meters high and glitter with gold tops. Unlike other religions that gather believers by beating drums, blowing trumpets or ringing bells, *** religion is to call believers to worship with their mouths!
Sure enough, as Rashid said, the whole process of visiting was only one hour, and for Zheng Fadong, it was just a matter of seeing what this famous mosque in the Middle East looked like, and he had no intention of going deeper.
Out of the mosque, Rashid said, "Brother, go, come home with me, go to the door, and stay at my house next time you come." With that, he got into the car and sped away to his own home.