[9][10] The idea for the Abrahamic Family House, which includes the Imam Al-Tayeb Mosque, was announced on February 5, 2019, by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, during a meeting of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity at the New York Public Library.

[12][13] The synagogue is named after the 12th-century Jewish scholar, physician and astronomer, Moses Ben Maimon (commonly known as Maimonides) who lived in Morocco and Egypt.

Maimonides was born in Córdoba, Spain in 1135, spent 12 years traveling before settling in Cairo, where he lived for the rest of his life, teaching and writing about Judaism.

[14][15] The opening ceremony of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue was attended by members of the Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, as well as government officials and other religious leaders.

The same prayer was also delivered in Arabic by Rabbi Yosef Hamdi, the leader of the small Jewish Yemenite community in Abu Dhabi that was rescued two years earlier by the Emirati government.