Grand Mosque

Lonely Planet review

This mosque, with the tallest minaret in town, might appear to be as old as the Dubai Museum, but it was actually built in the 1990s. The multi-domed mosque maintains the style of the original Grand Mosque, which dated from 1900 and was knocked down to make way for another mosque in 1960, and its sand-coloured walls and wooden shutters blend in perfectly with the surrounding old quarter of Bur Dubai.

As well as being the centre of Dubai's religious and cultural life, the original Grand Mosque was also home to the town's kuttab school where children learnt to recite the Quran from memory. Note that it's only possible to admire the mosque from outside - interiors of mosques in Dubai and the UAE are out of bounds to non-Muslims (except for the tour at Jumeirah Mosque).