13 Jun 2018
Al-Jabri added that on the night, 291 tons of garbage was collected and transported from within the Grand Mosque and its piazzas. The number of employees exceeded 300, including 100 employees for providing Iftar to worshipers. The male and female workers totaled 3,000. They worked round the clock in shifts. He said the administration with all its personnel is ready to serve the Grand Mosque and its visitors.
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13 Jun 2018
Muhammad Al-Quwaihes, mayor of Makkah, signed on Tuesday an agreement with Aknaf Al-Khaleej Company to establish an integrated residential neighborhood as part of the Makkah Gate project.
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12 Jun 2018
JEDDAH: The Ministry of Interior’s General Security Aviation Command, with its advanced fleet of aircraft, is the main element in the authorities’ security plans for the Grand Mosque this Ramadan. It runs continuous missions to keep an eye on Makkah’s traffic conditions and the Grand Mosque from the sky. Arab News accompanied the Security Aviation aircraft in one of the tours
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12 Jun 2018
MADINAH: Saudi government authorities have intensified their preparations to provide services to the masses of worshipers due to visit the Prophet’s Mosque, or ‘Masjid Al-Nabawi’, in Madinah. As the last nights of Ramadan 2018 approach, hundreds of thousands of worshipers flood to the Mosques of Madinah to finish reading the Qur’an, which is a tradition carried out by the
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12 Jun 2018
Over two million worshipers thronged the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah on Monday, the 27th night of Ramadan, which is widely believed to be Laylatul Qadr, the Night of Power.
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