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Special security precautions around Gand Mosque for Ramadan last 10 days |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 00:55 |
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KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) -- The Interior Ministry has taken special precautions around the 45,000 square metres Grand Mosque
to ensure order and facilitate flow of traffic to and from the mosque during the last days of Ramadan. The ministry said in a statement on Sunday that 30 patrols were deployed at road crossings around the mosque to ensure flow of traffic and movement of the worshippers into and out of the vast compound of the seaside mosque. The special precautions around the mosque would be carried out every night till the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, it added. Managers of the mosque have specialized buses to transport worshippers from nearby regions reaching the mosque on foot. Firemen have been also brought to the mosque site to help in any emergency and makeshift medical clinics have been set up, with full teams of medics. Number of worshippers that perform prayers at the mosque at night time during the last ten days of Ramadan reaches more than 50,000. The grand mosque is one of Kuwait's top landmarks. The main prayer hall is 72 metres (236 ft) wide on all sides, with 21 teakwood doors, and has lighting provided by 144 windows. The dome of the mosque is 26 metres (85 ft) in diameter and 43 metres (141 ft) high, and is decorated with the Asma al-hosna, the 99 names of God. The mosque can accommodate up to 10,000 men in the main prayer hall, and up to 950 women in the separate hall for women. - Kuna
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