Dubai Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Burj Khalifa=== {{Main|Burj Khalifa}} [[File:Dubai Police Agusta A-109K-2 in flight at sunset.jpg|thumb|Dubai Police Agusta A-109K-2 in flight near Burj Khalifa]] Burj Khalifa, known as the Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a {{convert|828|m|ft}} high<ref>[http://www.go-gulf.ae/blog/dubai-numbers/ "Dubai In Number"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404074223/http://www.go-gulf.ae/blog/dubai-numbers/ |date=4 April 2015}}, go-gulf.ae, 23 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.</ref> skyscraper in Dubai, and the tallest building in the world. The tower was inspired by the structure of the desert flower ''[[Hymenocallis]]''. It was constructed by more than 30 contracting companies around the world with workers of a hundred nationalities. It is an architectural icon, named after Sheikh [[Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/middleeast/sheikh-khalifa-uae-ruler-is-dead-at-73.html|title=Sheikh Khalifa, U.A.E. Ruler, Is Dead at 73|access-date=13 May 2022|website=The New York Times|date=13 May 2022 |last1=Hubbard |first1=Ben}}</ref> The building opened on 4 January 2010.<ref>[http://www.capturedubai.com/burj-khalifa/ "Iosif Stalin-2"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411003129/http://www.capturedubai.com/burj-khalifa/ |date=11 April 2015}}, capturedubai.com, 29 March 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page