One of the most important and revered locations in Islam is the Great Mosque in Mecca, also known as the Masjid Al-Haram. With a 356,800 square metre floor space and a capacity for 2 million people, it is the largest building in the world. Almost 20 million people annually visit this beautiful building, which cost $100 billion to construct. The mosque is always open and never closes.
1,800 cleaners, 40 electric cleaning cars, 60 yard cleaning devices, and 2,000 hygiene containers are all present at the Great Mosque. The mosque includes a shop that can contain up to 15,000 carpets, while the sanctuary has 40,000 carpets. 25,000 water containers, 13,000 toilets that are cleaned four times a day, and one of the biggest watering cans in the world are also there. Every day, the mosque checks 100 random water samples, and water that overflows from Zamzam is kept in a storehouse that has a capacity of 1,700,000 10-liter water bottles.
The mosque also provides a number of services to its visitors, such as the Maqraa Al-Haramain, a free service available around-the-clock that provides ten reliable readings. The mosque is equipped with more than 2,000 safes, hundreds of cooling systems for campuses, and heat- and light-reflective tiles. Together with an audio system with 6,000 speakers and 4 sound systems that translates the Quran into 65 different languages, there is also a destination app service that directs guests wherever on the campus. The mosque also offers services for those with special needs and translates the Friday Khutbah into five different languages.
The mosque distributes 500,000 pitted dates inside the shrine and 500,000 pitted dates outside the shrine throughout Ramadan, providing 4,000,000 meals for fasting morning. At the Grand Mosque of Mecca, there are five daily prayers and cleaning after breakfast takes only two minutes.
The Great Mosque in Mecca is a magnificent and stupendous structure that provides a variety of services to its visitors. It continues to be a vital symbol of Islam’s history and culture and is a tribute to the commitment and labour of those who created and maintain it.
