Makkah Gains Approval for First International Airport and Metro
The Royal Commission for Makkah City has secured approval to build the city's first international-standard airport, while feasibility studies for a Makkah Metro are complete.
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The Royal Commission for Makkah City has secured approval to build the city's first international-standard airport, while feasibility studies for a Makkah Metro are complete.
The Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites has awarded contracts to redevelop seven districts across 4.4 million square meters at a cost of $4.3 billion.
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mosque authority has set separate Hijr Ismail entry times: women from 6:00am to 9:00am and men from 10:00pm to 1:00am, to ease crowding near the Kaaba.
Saudi Arabia has completed the annual replacement of the Kiswa covering the Holy Kaaba, a 1,415-kilogram covering of 47 embroidered silk panels crafted by 154 Saudi artisans.
Mina's five-floor Jamarat complex, spanning 950 by 80 meters, can move more than 300,000 pilgrims an hour with hundreds of escalators, surveillance cameras, cooling and fire-safety systems, setting a global standard for Hajj crowd management.
Smart robots offering multilingual guidance, sanitisation robots, and AI-driven crowd analysis are expanding services at the Grand Mosque in Makkah as the 1448 Umrah season gets under way, with the Nusuk app tying the digital services together.
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