Madinah, Saudi Arabia — Saudi General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque said that the latter received a total of 6,000,247 worshipers and visitors last week.
The authority-issued statistics showed that 647,790 visited the Prophet Mohammed’s tomb, and 298,397 visitors performed prayers at Al-Rawdah Al-Sharifa, as per organizational procedures that control the movement of the crowds and schedule times for optional prayers for men and women.
It also reported that 16,506 elderly people and people with disabilities benefited from the services granted to them last week. Visitors who benefited from the guidance services reached 114,532, translation services 147,735, while 12,205 sought information at the Prophet’s Mosque’s library.
5,456 people visited exhibitions and museums, 146,429 gifts were presented to visitors, and 30,140 benefited from transportation services.
More than 160,000 bottles of Zamzam water were provided, and 142,007 Iftar meals were distributed in corridors of the mosque designated for people who had been fasting.