To the southwest of Al Jahili Fort near Al Jahili Oasis is a small mosque, with the inner fort built under the direction of Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, also known as Zayed the First, at the end of the 19th century.

This historic Jahili Mosque building was originally constructed with earth blocks and palm log beams and probably dates back to the foundation of the fort in the 1890s. The building’s historic fabric survives intact below a layer of mud plaster recently adde

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