In Islam, Friday Congregational prayer (Juum'ah) is a prayer that Muslims hold every Friday afternoon instead of the Zuhr prayer. Friday prayer consists of two bows (rak'ats), offered immediately after a sermon (Khutbah).

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Join the Friday Congregational prayer (Juum'ah), at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Dubai Exhibition Centre - Audio Guide

Dubai Exhibition Center

Take in conferences and performances a mere 300 metres away from Al Wasl Plaza.

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Expo 2020 connects minds from around the globe. These connections are not limited to the pavilions and parks, but also extend to the vast Dubai Exhibition Centre: a new, state-of-the-art venue for conferences, concerts and more. 

Conveniently located next to the recently completed Expo 2020 metro station, with striking views of the magnificent domed Al Wasl Plaza, the DEC offers 45,000 square metres of customisable event space, 14 exhibition and multi-use halls, on-site catering, and best-in-class audio-visual resources.


A light geometric pattern decorates the DEC’s extraordinarily broad front façade, which features a giant overhanging arch over the entrance to the central plaza area, as well as sloped surfaces that seem to angle away from the entrance like a pair of wings

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Friday Prayer

Celebrate Christmas Eve by joining a prayer service for humanity led by the Holy See Pavilion. This extra special service is part of the Holy See’s festive celebrations and offers an opportunity for reflection and contemplation.

Christmas Eve Prayer Service for Humanity

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This Christmas Eve, join a special prayer service for humanity led by the Holy See Pavilion. 

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While it’s famously the world’s smallest sovereign state, the Holy See (or Vatican City) has a big impact on the world: seeking to build bridges of peace and cultural harmony that underpin the universal values of tolerance and coexistence. The Holy See Pavilion celebrates open communication between interreligious and diplomatic groups to break down walls that separate us. Discover a showcase of vividly illustrated illuminated manuscripts and, if you look up, a beautiful recreation of one of the Holy See’s most iconic treasures: Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling fresco inside St Peter’s Basilica.

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Discover a recreation of one of the Holy See's treasures: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel’s ceiling fresco.

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Holy See: Christmas Eve Prayer Service for Humanity

The magic of Christmas will come to life from 20th - 28th December at Expo 2020 Dubai. Blending traditional celebrations with a modern twist, visitors will experience a truly festive environment. Al Wasl Plaza will be turned into a magical Winter Wonderland space with stunning Christmas decorations and festive projections. Throughout the districts visitors can enjoy a number of festive surprises.


Christmas Nostalgia

The magic of Christmas will come to life at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Christmas @ Expo

In this festival event you are invited to take the time to pause and reflect, and to consider other people. It’s a day for respecting the cultures, beliefs and traditions of others and understanding the risks posed by intolerance.

Cultural and Tolerance Day

Take the time, pause, and reflect in this festival event celebrating Cultural and Tolerance Day.

Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

Octavia's Playground

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More than 100,000 years ago, it’s believed that the first modern humans set out into the wider world from Ethiopia. The Ethiopia Pavilion takes you on an enthralling, aeons-spanning tour of the nation’s history and culture, from humanity’s beginnings to the vibrant modern day.

Your Ethiopian journey begins – as mankind’s did – in a dim cave. Explore prehistoric development and meet a replica of Lucy, the famed 3.2-million-year-old ape-like skeleton found in Ethiopia’s Awash Valley. Emerge into a bright modern factory to learn about the country’s manufacturing successes, before enjoying a classic Ethiopian coffee ceremony.


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Ethiopia: Cultural and Tolerance Day

Te Aratini will bring together indigenous and tribal people globally to share ancestral and contemporary knowledge, cultures and experiences. The event aims to ignite new connections, forge sophisticated partnerships and build enduring coalitions to address the issues facing our world.

Te Aratini Global Indigenous Symposium

Ti Aratini Global Indigenous Symposium

A festival event introducing the ancestral and contemporary culture of the Aratini tribal people, with the aim of building a more tolerant and inclusive future.

With our planet today home to 7.8 billion people, we put the spotlight on co-existence, understanding different faiths, creating inclusive dialogue, and so much more. During this Theme Week, Expo will provide a platform for diverse voices from all corners of the world to reimagine how spaces, environments and storytelling can become more inclusive by focusing on multiculturalism and peaceful co-existence.

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How can we foster a greater common understanding to enable more tolerant and inclusive societies?

Tolerance & Inclusivity Week

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The Whanganui River is so important to New Zealand’s Maori people that in 2017, it was granted a special legal identity, giving it the rights of a citizen. Now, the New Zealand Pavilion offers a sweeping cultural tour narrated by the Whanganui River itself.

With a design inspired by the Maori tradition of hand-crafting containers to safeguard items of value, the pavilion leads you on a journey of conservation where the greatest treasure to be protected is our natural world. Immerse yourself in the river’s story, deepen the experience with the pavilion’s web-based app, and journey through a 10-metre-high “vertical river” of water droplets.


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The New Zealand Pavilion features a tall box clad in titanic wavy panels of chainmail-like architectural mesh called Kaynemaile. Its flexible façade pulses to evoke a living building and sits on a base crafted from New Zealand Abodo eco-timber. The ground floor’s wooden exterior lends a warm feel to the modernist design, welcoming visitors through a small gap beneath the mammoth Kaynemaile panels.