MAKKAH: Several teams of experts have been deployed to provide services for pilgrims at the Grand Mosque including maintaining the Kaaba’s Black Stone, cleaning prayer areas, ensuring guidance information and proper translations, and establishing security and crowd control. This is according to Dr. Saad bin Mohammed Al-Muhaimid, the under-secretary-general for the affairs of
He also referred to using the latest technologies and best materials according to the international standards with up-to-date methods and professional ways in implementing works of the Holy Kaabah and relevant elements.
MAKKAH: After more than a year and a half, Muslims worldwide were delighted to see Friday prayers at the Two Holy mosques return to full capacity. Considered the two holiest sites in Islam, painful images of the mosques devoid of worshippers due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020 affected Muslims everywhere, but particularly citizens of Makkah and Madinah.
The Grand Mosque in Makkah, the Haram al Makki, and Masjid an-Nabawi in Madinah al Munawwerah, the Haram al Madani, are back to their full capacity after all Covid-19 restrictions were removed Sunday October 17, 2021.