On Monday, a photo of a mosque in Dubai bearing the new name ‘Mary Mother of Jesus Christ Mosque’ went viral on social media.
The Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed mosque in Al Mushrif, a district in Abu Dhabi, UAE, was renamed ‘Mariam, Umm Eisa’ which translates from Arabic to English as ‘Mary Mother of Jesus’.
Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, ordered the renaming of the mosque in 2019 “to consolidate bonds of humanity between followers of different religions.”
