Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

This guide to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi follows the country's first president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who spent three decades welding seven emirates into one nation and never lived to see this building finished. You'll hear how construction beginning in 1994 stretched years past his death, and about the eighty-two domes, four minarets and marble drawn from four countries that make up his last argument for unity. A listening tip: look down at the courtyard carpet as you walk it.