Meanwhile, the oldest mosque in the UAE can be found in Fujairah. Al-Bidyah Mosque is believed to be 580 years old. It gives a feeling of being a building that sprung up from the earth beneath it.

The excavation team dug up a few organic specimens they collected from beneath the structure of the mosque and walls to put them for C-14 analysis, which found that the mosque dates back to 1446.

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