Largest ever expansion, Central area of Haram to be
tripled
By RIZWAN KHATIK - Sat Jul 07,
3:38 pm
Unprecedented
move by King Abdullah to expand the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah gain praises.
The massive expansion works will start
very soon and the central Haram area will be tripled.
After this expansion, the total area
mosque will be 1.1 million square meters with the capacity to accommodate an
additional 1.6 million worshippers.
According to Arab News, the ground floor
of the mosque has an area of 98,500 sq. meters accommodating 167,000
worshippers, the roof has an area of 67,000 sq. meters accommodating 90,000
worshippers and the surrounding plaza a total area of 235,000 sq. meters
accommodating 450,000 worshippers.
The total area of the mosque and its
plaza is 400,500 sq. meters accommodating 707,000 worshippers but at peak times
as many as million worshippers could be in the mosque at any one time.
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