The Consulate organized a visit to a mosque about three blocks from our house. The mosque was recently built (like almost everything in Dubai) and modeled after the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Shelley (and all the other women) were required to wear the traditional habaya to cover her head, arms to her wrists, and legs up to her ankles.
Colin was more interested in wrestling with his brother and going to his baseball game than listening to the tour guide explain the elaborate Arabic calligraphy along the wall.
I thought this was a an interesting view from the lady's section which overlooks the men's prayer room below. The lady's prayer room is about 1/50 the size of the men's room. Our tour guide told us women's prayer rooms are so small and secluded because women are "exempt" from going to the mosque to pray.
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