A former official with the government’s Pilgrim Experience Programme tells me there must also be a focus on education.

It has also attracted controversy within the Muslim community who compared its design to the Kaaba, a stone building in the holy city of Mecca.

The Kaaba is a stone building at the centre of Islam’s most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. “The Kaaba in Mecca is where all Muslims go on their ...