The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque is intensifying sterilization and disinfection work in the Grand Mosque. The Agency for Field Services and Affairs and Environmental Protection Investigation at the Presidency has allocated more than 12 teams working 24 hours a day to disinfect and sterilize the Grand Mosque, numbering 4,000 male and female workers.
She explained that one of these teams is the Architectural Elements Division, which specializes in purifying all the architectural elements of the Grand Mosque, including the endeavor, the second Saudi expansion, and what it includes of columns, domes, arches, decorations, inscriptions, the marble balustrade overlooking the courtyard, and all the architectural elements of the second Saudi expansion of marble columns, and bases. Shoulders, crowns, doors, windows, lighthouses, domes from the inside, ceilings and all their decorative elements, and copper parts, provided that they are purified and polished with the appropriate materials for that.
While the Coppersmiths Division specializes in cleaning and polishing the lanterns of the Stone of Ismail, the Shrine of Abraham, peace be upon him, the Quran wheels, the lighting poles, all the balustrades and the brasses installed on the capitals and bases of the columns, as well as the brass headphones installed on the ceilings as well as the brasses in the courtyards.
There is also a carpet washing work team that washes the carpets of the Sacred Mosque in the Kudai Laundry, dries it and sweeps it after drying and perfumes it with a special material for carpets, and then wraps it carefully according to a program prepared for that.
The Escalators and Elevators Division: This squad washes and cleans escalators and elevators using stainless steel materials, according to a program prepared for that.
While the stair and beacons band sanding the fixed staircase and removing any accumulated dirt on it and the beacons according to a program prepared for that. The complexes team carries out the cleaning work of the complexes on a daily basis and sands them according to the program prepared for this.
The roof squad cleans the roof and cleans the columns and aluminum pedestals.
As for the emergency squad, it performs any additional work that is requested, whether inside or outside the Holy Mosque.
And the role of the washing team for the plastic walkers inside and outside the campus and re-deploying them again after drying and following up after brushing them.
While the cleaning team for the facades of the Sacred Mosque cleans the green tiles at the entrances to the doors and washes it with water.. And the manhole team cleans the manholes inside the Grand Mosque and its courtyards after removing the tiles, and cleans and washes what is covered with cleaning and disinfectant materials.
And finally, the carpet sweeping squad, where it brushes and sweeps the carpets inside and outside the Grand Mosque, and transports the carpets to and from the Grand Mosque. The carpets are lifted in emergency cases, the back face of the carpets are cleaned, and the carpets are replaced in case they are exposed to water or impurity, while securing the alternative.
