Saudi kings and officials made repairs and new buildings from time to time so that they could hold more and more pilgrims. King Salman bin Abdul Aziz has started 5 new projects as part of the third phase of expanding the Grand Mosque, which is the main place where Hajj and Umrah offerings are made. On July 12, 2015, it was announced that these five new projects would be part of the third phase of renovations. The five biggest parts of this new building are the main expansion building for the holy mosque, the external parks, the central services building, pedestrian tunnels, and the first ring road. The idea is to make it easier and more comfortable for pilgrims to do both required and optional pilgrimages. There are deep Meaning of your Umrah in Islam.  You can study the importance of Umrah and Hajj in the light of Hadith as well.

Masjid al-Haram can currently house up to 1.6 million people, but after the expansion, it will be able to house even more people. After the project is finished, it is said that the mosque will be able to serve and house 1.8 million worshippers. The expansion adds almost all of the mosque's parts and is seen as a big step forward in history. The project includes the expansion of the eastern parks, which was started by the late King Khalid, the expansion of the mosque from the western side, and the expansion of Massaa, which was started by the late Custodian of the two holy mosques. Overall, we can say that the expansion includes buildings, squares, tunnels, Service buildings, and a ring road.

The Saudi Press Agency said that the building's expansion covers 1.47 million square metres and adds 78 new gates at ground level. The expanded building is now surrounded by these new gates. According to Ibrahim Bin Abdul Aziz, the finance minister of Saudi Arabia, the new building has 6 new floors that will make it easier for people to pray. It also has 680 escalators and 24 elevators for people with special needs. About 21,000 toilets and places to wash will also be built again to make the pilgrims feel more at ease.

In 2011, King Abdullah Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman started this project to make the city bigger. The project was then taken over by King Salman, who said that it would keep going. The Saudi Binladin group is in charge of building the project, which is estimated to cost $26.6 billion. Isolux Corsan, a Spanish construction company, has been given some of the building work. Its job is to build a two-line metro system that will connect to the Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah line, which was built in 2010 to take pilgrims between religious sites. The Spanish construction company says that 3500 workers will be needed to finish the project.

The plan is to finish not only these five projects, but also a number of other projects, such as the Mataf (circumambulation) and its equipment, the security buildings, the hospital, and the stairs. When all of these projects are done, the Grand Mosque will be able to hold more than 1.8 million people for umrah in Makkah. The project report says that the bridges and flyover areas will be 45,000 square metres and can hold 50,000 worshippers. Also, the service building is 550,000 square feet and will be able to hold 3,100,000 pilgrims. The area around the eastern stairs will be 263,000 square metres and can hold 150,000 people.

The area of Massaa will grow to 57,000 square metres, which is big enough for 90,000 people to live in. According to the report, it will be the biggest change to the holy mosque's land and will use the most up-to-date building and digital system techniques.

Since tunnels used by pedestrians are also part of the project, numbers about them were also included in the report. It says that the length of pedestrian and emergency tunnels is 5313 linear metres, of which 1922 linear metres are tunnels for electricity and services and 4643 linear metres are tunnels for savages.

Advance systems and technology are used in the building process as a whole. The project has advanced electromechanical systems, including sound systems with a total of 4524 headphones, as well as systems for hygiene and fire alarms. The project also includes things like putting radios and TVs in the rooms and making places for equipment to be put in. People will be helped by cameras, antennas, and a new radio and TV studio in the services building. The building also has 44 cameras. Also, there will be new cameras for checking, and some of them will have IR illuminators so they can work in an emergency.

According to the numbers given in the report, there will be four security buildings that can house more than 18,000 people.
Before the project started, the Mataf could take in 50,000 people per hour. After the work is done, it will be able to take in 107,00 people per hour.

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The first ring road is made up of bridges, surface roads, and tunnels, some of which are new and some of which are already there. In the project, it is also planned to build a water treatment line with a diameter of 1000 mm and a length of about 30 km. This line will lead to the central services complex.