From Preserving Endowment Books to Scholarly Leadership:

The Library was established at the suggestion of the Director of Endowments during the reign of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, with the aim of preserving endowment books in the prophet’s Mosque at the time, and to demonstrate the civilization dimension of the prophet’s Mosque and Madinah in the Islamic world.

Library Holdings:

It is a public library, established in 1352 AH in the prophet’s Mosque. The Library has an area of 744 m

and can accommodate 300 visitors. It contains more than 172,000 books, under more than 70 categories and more than eight indexing sections for classification of books and rare books in the various branches of Arabic and Islamic scholarly fields.

Serving Knowledge in Various Ways:

The numerous advantages of the Library include:

● Rooms equipped to receive men, women and children to read and research.

● A section for rare manuscripts.

● An audio library.

● Technical sections for binding, preserving and sterilizing of manuscripts.

● Offering the various research techniques and reading options.

● availability of on-screen reading options.

Benefiting from the Library:

Visitors can benefit from the library through:

● Benefiting from the magnitude and quality of library holdings, such as books and manuscripts.

● Benefiting from the well-equipped reading rooms.

● Using the quality indexing techniques and technical devices available to facilitate the job of researchers.

Library Visitors:

The library is suitable for all researchers and ordinary readers, including men, women, and children, wishing to benefit from the library holdings.

Getting to the Library:

Men's area is located in the upper floor of the library and can be accessed through the escalator, Gate No. 10. Women's area is located in the northeastern prayer hall at Gate No. 24 and the northwest prayer hall at Gate No. 16.

The library is open to visitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.