Abraj Kudai Hotel-Mecca

Mecca will soon be the home to the world’s largest hotel, Abraj Kudai. Apart from its historic and religious significance, Mecca will now become an important tourist destination too by 2017.

With 10,000 rooms, 12 towers- of which 10 will be four star and two will be for five-star guests, more than 70 restaurants and 48 storeys, the hotel will also four computer-generated helipads on the roof. Abraj Kudai’s podium will accommodate a bus station, shopping mall, food courts, conference centre and car parks.

Abraj Kudai will have five special floors, always reserved for the members of the Saudi Royal Family. The project will cost an estimated $3.5 billion to complete. It is excepted that the hotel will showcase the ‘unparalleled size, height as well as location, exposure and architectural style.’ The hotel building will also ‘pose itself as a striking landmark with a profoundly modern multifunctional identity relating to both the Saudi locality and the Islamic universality of its expected users.’

A dome on top of two mid towers will add an extra binge to the hotel. The dome, which will be one of the world’s largest domes atop its tallest tower, will comprise a ballroom and convention centre, making another record of its own.

However, the details secure that the Abraj Kudai hotel is not only the largest of its genre, but it is also one of the costliest. The hotel will boast 64,000 square-metres of total area of the building while 1,400,000 square-metres is the complete floor area.

According to a latest news development, despite of the largest hotel in making in Mecca, the locals miss the serene religious tone of the city that buckled the people together. Ziauddin Sardar, writer of Mecca: The Sacred City echoed this, saying: “The one beloved of all Muslims. The other is a place firmly rooted in time and space, where human nature is exhibited in all its foibles and ferocity.”