out as just a small prayer hall operating on the upper floor of a rented commercial building, with two altars. Permitted to be built in 1958, the small temple had become a foreign policy issue during the visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE in late 2016. Instead, Hindus living in Abu Dhabi and Dubai practice their religion within their homes. The first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi is currently under construction. The new temple, BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Abu Dhabi, had its foundation stone laying ceremony in April, 2019. There are two operating cremation facilities for the Hindu community, one in Abu Dhabi and one in Dubai. Yemen There are about 200,000 Hindus in Yemen. Many of them are from India and Nepal. Hindu temples BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Abu Dhabi, UAE Sindhi Guru Darbar Temple in Dubai, UAE Motishwar Shiv Mandir in Muscat, Oman Shiva and Krishna Mandir in Dubai, UAE Shrinathji Temple, Bahrain Hinglaj Mataji Mandir in Aden, Yemen Ramchanderji Temple in Aden, Yemen Trikamraiji-Haveli Temple in Crater, Yemen See also Hinduism by country BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Abu Dhabi Buddhism in the Middle East References Middle Eastern culture