The Agency of the General Presidency for Technical and Service Affairs has designated an integrated work system for the last Friday prayer before the blessed month of Ramadan, as the agency intensifies disinfection, sterilization and operation operations, in addition to distributing single-use Zamzam water bottles to the prayer halls, areas, squares, and visitors in general.
The agency supervises movement and vehicle operations inside the Grand Mosque, opening the doors of the Grand Mosque, organizing entry and exit from it, determining paths for people with special needs through it, and other services that are supervised by the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Noi Mosque.
Among the most important work related to preparations for the last Friday before the blessed month of Ramadan is moving the Friday sermon platform behind the shrine, disinfecting it, sterilizing it, and preparing it for the sermon, with the installation of sound microphones on it, which works with a (Phantom and Dynamic) system and a sound breaker system from the brand (SoundCraft) and the number of microphones is nine for the imam and six for the muezzin. Five basic and (10) reserve.
The pulpit will be ready in sufficient time before the prayer time, to ensure its efficient and high quality operation, and to conduct the necessary tests for it, and these works are supervised by a qualified work team using the latest technologies to ensure that they are properly implemented.
The Agency, through its departments, coordinates with the relevant authorities to organize the squares, and to organize their movement inside the Grand Mosque and its squares through observers distributed over the main and subsidiary corridors, in order to ensure the success of the process of flaring and the fulfillment of the requirements of precautionary measures and preventive measures inside the Grand Mosque.
The agency has designated the Department of disinfection and carpets at the Grand Mosque to disinfect and scent the Grand Mosque using the finest types of environmentally friendly disinfectants and perfumes that were brought specially to the Grand Mosque.
A department has also been devoted to dealing with negative phenomena that works through continuous coordination with field departments at the Grand Mosque to monitor and process any observations that may occur to the field work system and to benefit from any observations to ensure that they are not repeated and to form a database that contributes to the continuous development of the field work system and the preventive measures that it activates. Presidency in the fringes of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
The Agency, to upgrade its services system; By preparing its plan to upgrade its service system, as the Agency has equipped the Mobility Services Department with electric vehicles and wheelbarrows to facilitate the movement of worshipers and pilgrims through the mezzanine floor on the first round of the circumambulation and pursuit by vehicles, which can be accessed from four entrances to the Grand Mosque: He delivered “Al-Arqam” and “Al-Marwah” on the roof of Al-Qashashi cycles), with posters placed at the distribution sites emphasizing the application of social distancing and lack of crowding, when requesting service, and stickers on vehicles confirming that the vehicles were sterilized before and after use.
The Agency’s Gates Department has recruited more than (100) gatekeepers to receive the worshipers and direct them to the designated places, and that the special doors are (Ajyad Bridge, Stairway Al-Shabika, Gate 91, Al-Arqam, Gate 70, Gate 80, Gate 78, Gate 84, and Gate 74, And section 123, and chapter 121). As for the chapters for pilgrims, there are (10), which are: (King Fahd Gate, Ajyad, Al-Safa, the Prophet, Bani Shaybah, Al-Marwah, Salam Al-Arqam, Bridge Al-Marwa, and the phrase of the Prophet)
The agency has also intensified the watering services for visitors and worshipers, according to precautionary measures that have prepared its plan and a mechanism for its implementation in advance by raising the distribution of the number of packages to about (27) thousand packages for Friday prayers distributed over the courtyard by special carts in addition to about (100) bags in the endeavor, the funeral chapel and the prayer room for people. Special needs and general the first floor and the general expansion of King Fahd, as well as the expansion of King Abdullah.
In general, the entrances and stairs were supported by teams of cylindrical bags, which numbered about (100) cylindrical bags.
The agency was keen to provide sterilization operations on Friday around the clock, and about 5,000 liters of sterilizers were used to sterilize all surfaces and floors, not to create a healthy, devotional atmosphere free of epidemics.
More than (45) field teams were equipped, working 24 hours a day, to sterilize all sides of the Grand Mosque and its external squares, and more than (300) automatic hand sterilization devices, modern and high-quality, and the sensor feature were distributed throughout the old house.
The agency supervises the follow-up of the operational status of all escalators and elevators and makes sure that all their parts are ready, inspects the sound system consisting of approximately eight thousand speakers and confirms the sound of the imam, muezzin and funerals before each imposition in addition to conducting the necessary tests for all the sound system inside the Grand Mosque and its corridors and squares supervised by a specialized team These works are to ensure that the implementation is in accordance with followed technical principles and to ensure that they are free from any defects by using the latest technologies, due to the care that the Kingdom’s government pays attention to the Two Holy Mosques and their destination.
