being of pilgrims. He ordered the expansions of the Two Holy Mosques and new facilities and services. This has been continued by his successors keeping in mind the needs of the time. In 1988, King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, laid the foundation for the third Saudi expansion of the Mosque in Makkah. Three years earlier, an equally ambitious expansion plan had been launched for the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah. Both can now accommodate more than one million pilgrims each. A notable feature of both projects is that all the expansions have been done in a way that will permit future expansion workS to be carried out, without disturbing the architecture, style or look.
