Muharraq Council backs funding push for Arad mosque completion

TDT | Manama

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Muharraq Municipal Council has approved a set of service proposals, led by a plan to help finish the remaining works needed to open Mohammed bin Hameed Mosque in Arad and a move to address safety and access issues in Al Hidd.

Ahmed Al Moqahwi, a council member, said construction of the mosque in Block 241 was about 90 per cent complete, but work had stalled after the donor funding the build faced financial difficulties.

He said the council had written to the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs asking it to look at completing what is left so the mosque can open.

Kerb

The council also agreed to lower the kerb opposite Tareq Sweets shops in Al Hidd and to install a ‘No parking for trucks’ sign near a building in the area. On Diyar Al Muharraq’s new marina, the council discussed the share to be set aside for fishermen in the Sixth Constituency.

The constituency’s representative, Fadhil Al Oud, said Ria Harbour needed electricity and water services to be extended, adding that without lighting it currently amounted to a water basin and posed a risk to visitors at night.

Al Oud said around 60 per cent of the fish traded in Bahrain’s markets comes from Ria Harbour, and called for work to address its condition and to give the harbour and its fishermen priority.

Separately, Al Moqahwi said the council had repeatedly asked to meet Ministry of Works representatives to obtain details and updates on the bridge linking Muharraq and Arad, but had received no reply despite correspondence over roughly seven years.