Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque

This guide to Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque in Dubai opens with a startling fact: the man it's named for once set out to kill the Prophet Muhammad. It follows Omar ibn al-Khattab from feared enemy of early Islam toward the moment his own sister's faith stopped him in his tracks, before turning to the mosque itself, its twenty-one domes echoing Istanbul's Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the sixty artisans from Fez who carved its plasterwork. You'll also learn how the site has held a place of prayer since 1986, long before this building opened in 2011.