The Al-Abbas's (p) Shrine covers more than 13 thousand square meters of street spaces with Saran cloth

The Engineering Maintenance and Construction Department at the Al-Abbas's (p) Shrine announced that it covers an area of more than 13 thousand square meters from a number of streets surrounding the holy shrine.
The work was carried out by the construction machinery and equipment division of the Department.
The official of the Division; Mr. Hassan Ali Abdul Hussein, said that " the division's staff, in cooperation with the department between the Two Holy Shrines, has completed covering an area of more than 13 thousand square meters of the spaces of a number of streets surrounding the holy shrine," noting that "work is ongoing in order to implement the plan prepared in advance, aiming to cover 20 thousand square meters of the area."
"This year, the plan has witnessed a significant expansion from previous years, as it was limited to the area around the holy shrine, but now it has included covering an additional number of streets and alleys leading to the holy shrine, and this work comes in order to mitigate the effects of sunlight on mourners,"he added.
He pointed out that"the division provides its services to various sites of the Al-Abbas's (p) Shrine to make them ready to receive visitors, including providing what external sites need, as well as setting up sanitary complexes in cooperation with the relevant departments".
The Cranes Unit in the Division is working on installing lighting poles and transporting electric power generators in addition to caravans, as well as the construction equipment unit continues its work 24 hours a day in cooperation with the Service Affairs Department, to transport and store the healthy water fountains provided by the Al-Abbas's (p) Shrine for visitors in the month of Muharram.