How do you provide 1,300 daily mosque visitors with a safe and comfortable surface in their ablution rooms? Duabi’s Easa Saleh Al Gurg mosque is one of the busiest in the city, with many of the 1,300 worshippers performing prayers five times a day. After bathing their hands and feet, worshippers walk barefoot to pray, often across a tiled floor, resulting in slippery and often uncomfortable surfaces. Case Study Heronrib The problem In 2012, the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Mosque opened in Karama, a residential area in the centre of Dubai. The 1858 sq/m building is visited daily by 1,300 worshippers, many of whom perform the ‘Wudu’ five times a day. This ceremony involves washing the hands, face, head and feet in one of the mosque’s three ablution rooms, before walking barefoot into the prayer

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