Housing a mosque, church, and synagogue, 'the center will be a platform for learning and dialogue, a model of coexistence'The United Arab Emirates recently opened a center housing a mosque, church, and the Gulf state’s first official synagogue, with the aim of promoting interfaith coexistence in the Muslim nation. The only other synagogue in the Gulf Arab region is in Bahrain, which also has a small Jewish community. The UAE was the first Gulf country to normalize ties with Israel and only the third Arab nation to do so after Egypt and Jordan