In order to accommodate the large crowds of the visitors of the Al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine equip a number of sites inside the old city centre..

The Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine equipped more than eight sites to accommodate the visitors with the necessary required services, and this comes as a result of the increasing numbers of the honourable visitors this year, especially the Arab and foreign visitors. Sayed. Mustafa Murtada Dya'uddeen the head of the Sayeds servants division explained to the Al-Kafeel Global Network the following: "The Zyarat Arba'een this year is distinctive due to the influx of large numbers of the honourable visitors from inside and outside Iraq despite of the circumstances that our country lives, millions are heading towards the city of Al-Hussayn (peace be upon him) Karbala."

Noting: "The holy shrine formed a committee to coordinate with the Educational Directorate of Karbala for preparing some schools in order to receive the visitors of Imam Al-Hussayn (peace be upon him) and the volunteers who came from different provinces of Iraq in order to support the servants of the holy shrines."

Explaining: "A site of the holy shrine of 1.500 m2 was equipped with tents to be "a centre of accommodation of the female honourable visitors" adjacent to the public library in the street of the Qiblah of Imam Al-Hussayn (peace be upon him). Also, the school of Al-Hadara was equipped to receive the Swedish, European, Yemeni and Syrian delegations as it has a capacity of more than 2000 visitors, the school of Nahr Al-'Alqami was equipped for the processions of Tuz-khurmatu and 'Amarah as it can accommodate up to 2.500 people, the school of Gaza for the volunteers of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine and the Turkish delegation as it can accommodate up to 2.500 people, and the Al-Hashimyah school with a capacity of 2.500 people, were dedicated only to the volunteers of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine. .."

Adding: "The division of Sayeds servants within the holy shrine remove the carpets to let the condolences Hussayni processions pass, and then put them back for the time of prayer. Also, six brothers of Sayeds with their uniforms were placed in the basement of Imam Al-Jawad (peace be upon him), which was opened this year and allocated for women to guide the ladies to where they want to go, and we have deployed a number of the Sayeds on various external sites of the holy shrine."