The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi welcomed a file variety of worshippers on the twenty seventh night time of Ramadan. A complete of 70,000 individuals attended prayers, together with 11,589 performing Taraweeh and 59,091 praying Tahajjud because the mosque offered Iftar meals for 33,500 individuals.
The prayers have been led by Sheikh Idris Abkar, the imam of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque who prayed for the persevering with safety and prosperity of the UAE, for the steerage of its leaders and for forgiveness for the Founding Fathers.
The mosque’s halls, corridors, and courtyards have been crammed with worshippers from all walks of life, making a scene of peace and tranquillity.
Along with the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, giant numbers of worshippers additionally attended prayers at different mosques within the UAE.
On the Sheikh Khalifa Grand Mosque in Al Ain, the full variety of worshippers was 28,850, together with 3,734 who carried out the Isha and Taraweeh prayers, and 25,116 attended the Tahajjud prayer.
On the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Fujairah, the full variety of worshippers was 13,634, together with 2,318 who carried out the Isha and Taraweeh prayers, and 11,316 for the Tahajjud prayer.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre made each effort to accommodate the massive variety of worshippers, offering a variety of companies in cooperation with varied authorities businesses. These companies included:
-Offering greater than 70 electrical automobiles to move worshippers from the parking tons to the mosque’s amenities and prayer halls.
-Offering greater than 50 wheelchairs.
-Carpeting the mosque’s courtyard and establishing particular prayer areas for ladies.
-Rising the variety of cellular info factors all through the mosque.
-Offering extra water bottles.
-Distributing greater than 3,515 snug seats for worshippers in varied elements of the mosque.
-Offering a medically geared up ambulance in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority.
In anticipation of the massive variety of worshippers, the Centre, in collaboration with the related authorities, allotted 1,800 extra parking areas this yr, bringing to eight,379 the full variety of parking areas. It additionally offered a shuttle bus service between the parking tons and the mosque, in coordination with the Built-in Transport Centre to assist scale back site visitors congestion on the principle and secondary roads across the mosque and its entrances.
To make sure easy site visitors circulation, the Directorate Common of Visitors and Patrols at Abu Dhabi Police carried out a complete plan, growing the variety of cops and patrols within the space surrounding the mosque and its varied entrances.
In step with its worth of volunteering, the centre doubled the variety of volunteers to greater than 580. These included all of the centre’s staff in varied specialties, who labored after their official working hours and shifts, alongside volunteers from the Emirates Purple Crescent, the “Absher Ya Watan” volunteer staff, cops, paramedics, civil defence personnel, and help workers.
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