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Plans
afoot to establish new pilgrim centre in Madinah
Monday April 09, 2012 08:30:27 PM,
IINA
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Madinah:
The Hajj Ministry in Saudi Arabia plans to establish a big pilgrim reception center in Hijrah at the gate of Madinah at a cost of SR60 million,
Hajj Minister Bandar Al-Hajjar announced on April 07.
Speaking to reporters after an inspection tour of Hajj facilities
in Madinah, he said the new center is designed to serve more than
7 million Hajj and Umrah pilgrims annually.
He said Hijrah would have a station for public transport and
another for a monorail project. “It will bring about a qualitative
improvement in pilgrim services,” he added.
Al-Hajjar said the ministry has allocated SR20 million for the
second phase of its headquarters project in Madinah. “We’ll
construct five new service buildings near the existing
headquarters,” he said.
The minister said his tour was planned on the directives of
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in order to make
early preparations for Hajj.
His visit covered Prince Muhammad International Airport in Madinah,
the second largest gateway of pilgrims coming to the Kingdom.
About 400,000 Umrah pilgrims have already arrived in Madinah.
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