The Prophet's Mosque in Madinah is packed with millions of pilgrims every year, both during the day and at night.
The Prophet's Mosque's General Authority for Affairs has already devised a crowd-control strategy that includes capacity estimations, crowd-control methods, and evacuation plans.
The plan requires coordination between law enforcement, security organizations, and a specialist engineering team to ensure the safe and smooth flow of people. Many routes and paths will be monitored and controlled.
It's June 3, 2024 in Madinah. The Prophet's Mosque has a never-ending stream of worshippers both entering and leaving the mosque at any time of day or night. All over the world, millions come to the mosque to pray to Allah during the five daily prayers commonly known as Al-Rawdah Al-Sharifah.During these times, the density of worshipers is at its highest. The General Authority for the Affairs of the Prophet's Mosque adheres to a precisely constructed plan for crowd management, established well in advance of the Hajj season. This plan involves calculating the capacity of each licensed prayer site, designing ways of crowd management, developing evacuation schemes, and setting up emergency passages. In the actualization of this plan, the authorities and security agencies cooperate and harmonize their work.
A specialized team of engineers executes the plan through designing the operational mechanisms, while a qualified field crew oversees the crowd flow inside the Prophet's Mosque and its yards. At the same time, the design requests integrated monitoring and control for 38 major channels, 14 minor passageways, and 8 emergency pathways, providing unproblematic and safe passage movement of people. Moreover, the design creates reservations easy for visitors to access Al-Rawdah Al-Sharifah through the Nusuk app. It further avails special sites for sorting and waiting, thus enabling people to pray at Al-Rawdah according to their permit time.
