The Great Mosque of Abu Dhabi is one of the legacies bequeathed by the sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan II to his own country.

The project for the construction and maintenance of the religious building was awarded,starting from 1996, to an Italian joint venture led by the Group: at the time it was the biggest contract ever assigned within the field of contemporary architecture owing to its technical complexity and value, and one of biggest construction projects ever won by an Italian company.

The mosque's space for worship stretches over an area twice as large as that of St. Peter's in Rome (over 50,000 m2) and can accommodate as many as 40,000 worshippers. The building has four minarets of 110 m of height, 82 domes, almost 150 pinnacles, and thousands of decorative sculpted, engraved elements (in addition to the largest hand-knotted carpet in the world).

The Great Mosque is the eighth largest building of Islamic worship in the world and it is considered to be the monument most loved by the citizens of Abu Dhabi. Sheik Zayed died soon after the completion of construction and his body rests in the building named after him. 

Client: Public Works Department

Main Technical Data:

Total surface area: 84,000 m²

Covered surface area: 52,000 m²

Open Shan: 21,000 m²

Earthmoving works: 492,000 m³

Foundation piles: 9,759 n

Concrete: 259,000 m³

Structural steel: 20,200 t

Waterproofing membrane: 178,500 m²