The opening of the new mosque, endowed by the heirs of Mohammed and Sultan Yousef Al Obaidan, is part of the ministry's plan to expand and develop the number of mosques across the country, keeping pace with urban growth and population growth, in line with the country's National Vision 2030.
The new mosque, which is a congregational mosque and has the number (M.S. 1417), includes a main prayer hall that can accommodate 550 worshippers, in addition to a hall for women that can accommodate 60 worshippers. The mosque includes a spacious ablution area and a number of public parking spaces, some of which have been designated to serve people with disabilities, with organized entrances and exits. The mosque also features a tall minaret.The Ministry's Engineering Affairs Department is responsible for meeting the needs of the country's regions for mosques and prayer rooms, supplying regions with temporary mosques and supervising their preservation, preparing the annual plan for the maintenance of mosques and imams' residences, in coordination with the relevant authorities, supervising the preparation and implementation of construction and maintenance work for mosques, supervising the construction projects of mosques and imams' residences owned by endowments in terms of designs, technical and engineering specifications, and implementation, and preparing a database on mosques, prayer rooms, and their workers.
The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs' website offers a feature for searching for mosque locations geographically, using the Global Navigation System (GNS). This feature provides precise and specific maps that facilitate access to mosque locations in all cities within the country.