Road Mosques Care Association

What Road Mosques Care Association does

Road Mosques Care Association is a Saudi Arabian nonprofit organization that builds, rehabilitates, and maintains mosques along the kingdom's road network, providing worship facilities for travelers and pilgrims. Founded around 2012 (with some sources referencing 2019), the association employs approximately 44 people and operates under the honorary presidency of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman. Its work is explicitly aligned with Saudi Vision 2030 objectives for pilgrim and religious-tourism infrastructure, and it received the Hajj Service Excellence Award in 2025, signaling formal recognition within that framework.

The organization runs a structured portfolio of programs: the Tahara program for mosque employment and operations, the Friends of Our Mosques program for volunteer recruitment, and the Excellence Partner program that embeds corporate sponsorship at SASCO gas stations along highways. It operates a mobile application called "Masajidna ala al-Turuq" (Our Mosques on the Roads) and has integrated with the Ehsan national donation platform to broaden its fundraising reach. Donor engagement is substantial, with over 239,000 individual donors recorded for a single mosque project, and the association has formalized partnerships with government entities including the Ministry of Energy, SDAIA, and the Ministry of Sports.

The association's funding model combines individual donations, Zakat contributions, and waqf endowments, supplemented by corporate sponsorships from highway gas station operators and government ministry partnerships. The combination of religious infrastructure focus, royal patronage, government backing, broad public donor base, and award-recognized pilgrim service positions the association as a distinctive nonprofit entity within Saudi Arabia's religious services and Hajj-related infrastructure landscape.

Name

Road Mosques Care Association

Legal name

جمعية العناية بمساجد الطرق

Website

https://msajidona.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Road Mosques Care Association is a Saudi nonprofit that builds, rehabilitates, and maintains mosques along the kingdom's road network, serving travelers and pilgrims via corporate, government, and individual donor support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Charitable Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (813110), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD)

Keywords

• Charitable nonprofit services
• Mosque construction services
• Religious facility maintenance
• Zakat and donation collection
• Pilgrim support services

Headquarters

HQ city

Riyadh

HQ country

Saudi Arabia

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations and Zakat: The association generates revenue through charitable donations from individuals, corporate donors, and government entities. Donors contribute through the association's e-store, Ehsan platform, SMS text donations, and the waqf (endowment) fund. Projects include mosque construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The association builds, rehabilitates, and maintains mosques along highways, inter-city routes, and pilgrim corridors in Saudi Arabia, serving pilgrims and travelers. It funds these projects through charitable donations, Zakat, and waqf (endowment) contributions collected via its own e-store, the Ehsan national platform, SMS donations, and institutional partnerships. Supporting services include the Masajidna mobile application for locating road mosques, the Tahura employment program for mosque operations, the Friends of Our Mosques volunteer program, and the Excellence Partner program for gas station-based mosque maintenance.

Product overview

Road Mosques Care Association operates a unified charitable platform focused on building, rehabilitating, and maintaining mosques along highways and travel routes in Saudi Arabia. The core offerings include a mobile application (Masajidna App) for travelers to locate mosques, an electronic donation platform for online contributions, and three main programs: Tahura (employment for families), Friends of Our Mosques (volunteer program), and Excellence Partner Program (gas station partnerships). The association serves pilgrims, travelers, and local communities across the Kingdom through these integrated services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• مساجدنا على الطرق (Masajidna): Mobile application for locating mosques supervised by the association along roads in Saudi Arabia

Products and services

• Masajidna ala al-Turuq Mobile Application (Our Mosques on the Roads) Mobile application available on iOS and Android that enables travelers in Saudi Arabia to discover and locate mosques supervised by the association along their travel routes.
• Electronic Donation Platform (store.msajidona.org) Online donation platform that allows donors to contribute to specific mosque construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance projects via the Waqf fund, with one-time or recurring donations accepted through Mada, Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay.
• Mosque Construction and Rehabilitation Projects Construction of new mosques and rehabilitation of existing mosques along highways and travel routes throughout Saudi Arabia, with projects often named after donors, military batches, government departments, or individuals who funded the work.
• Tahura Program (برنامج طهرة) Employment program engaging families receiving charitable assistance to operate association mosques along highways; wives work in women's prayer facilities and husbands in men's mosque areas alongside supporting cleaning staff, under a remote employment system approved by the Ministry of Labor.
• Friends of Our Mosques Program (أصدقاء مساجدنا) Volunteer program attracting national talents to participate in charitable work, with the goal of transitioning some mosque cleaning and maintenance operations along highways to volunteer-driven management.
• Excellence Partner Program (شريك تميّز) Partnership program with gas station owners and service center operators along regional roads; station owners who care for mosques at their facilities receive recognition and incentives, with partnership contracts offering various benefits as a model for other operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• Mosques served along pilgrim routes during Hajj season with raised operational readiness

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• SASCO (ساسكو)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 May 2025SASCO (Saudi Arabian Oil Company subsidiary) signed a strategic partnership with the association under the patronage of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman to develop mosques at gas stations along roads. This is part of the Excellence Partner program, where SASCO station operators commit to maintaining mosques at their facilities in exchange for recognition and incentives.
• Ehsan PlatformcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe association partners with Saudi Arabia's official Ehsan charitable platform for donation collection and project visibility. Multiple mosques have been built and opened through contributions from Ehsan platform donors, with the association managing construction and delivery.
• Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) / سداياmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSDAIA personnel sponsored the construction of a mosque through the association on the Medina-Makkah route. The partnership involved signing a MoU under the patronage of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman, representing a significant institutional partnership.
• Ministry of EnergymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Energy under the patronage of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman and HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman to serve pilgrims on roads and border crossings leading to Qatar.
• Ministry of SportsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Sports, initiated by the association's honorary president HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman, to build mosques for ministry personnel.
• Ministry of Environment, Water and AgricultureminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association partnered with the ministry's personnel to construct mosques, including inauguration under the patronage of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman and the minister. A mosque sponsored by the ministry's personnel was inaugurated on the Riyadh-Qassim route.
• Saqiyah Foundation (مؤسسة سقاية)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association signed a cooperation agreement with the Sakiyah Foundation under the patronage of the Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture to support mosque projects along pilgrim routes.
• Baladiyah Al-Makhwah MunicipalityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association signed a cooperation agreement with the municipality of Al-Makhwah under the patronage of the Amir of Al-Baha region, contributing to mosque development in the Al-Baha area.
• Baladiyah Al-Aqiq MunicipalityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe association signed a cooperation agreement with the municipality of Al-Aqiq governorate under the patronage of the Amir of Al-Baha region for mosque development cooperation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO): Saudi-headquartered Islamic humanitarian NGO with comparable mission, donor base, and Saudi-institutional sponsorship model. Operates similar faith-based charitable infrastructure programs internationally.
• National Housing Company (NHC): Saudi state-linked non-profit developer that constructs and maintains social infrastructure at scale. Comparable in delivering government-sponsored infrastructure projects with a development-orientation rather than a commercial-return orientation.
• King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief): Saudi-based humanitarian NGO with similar royal patronage and Saudi-government funding model. Comparable in scale, donor ecosystem, and institutional partnerships, though KSRelief operates internationally while Road Mosques Care Association operates domestically.
• Saudi Charitable Society for Water: Saudi charitable organization focused on distributed infrastructure (water) along roads and underserved areas. Comparable in operating model — faith-aligned charitable infrastructure delivery across Saudi Arabia's road network.
• Ehsan National Charitable Platform: Saudi Arabia's national donation platform under Crown Prince patronage. Both entities serve the same donor pool for charitable infrastructure projects, and Ehsan is currently the association's primary GTM partner for donations; comparable in scale and reward-driven donor activation.
• Saudi Food Bank (Etaam): Saudi non-profit with a similar volunteer-driven operations model, donor mobilization playbook, and government partnership structure. Operates parallel 'service to vulnerable beneficiaries' programs through distributed national operations.

Regional players

• Qatar Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs: Regional counterpart responsible for mosque construction, maintenance, and endowment management in Qatar. Comparable in mandate (road and pilgrim-route mosques) but operates as a government ministry rather than a chartered charity.

Broad incumbents

• Muslim World League (MWL): Saudi-headquartered international Islamic NGO with a much broader mandate but similar institutional gravitas, royal patronage, and donor ecosystem. Comparable on governance and Saudi-anchored Islamic charitable infrastructure.
• Alwaleed Philanthropies: Saudi philanthropic foundation with royal family leadership and a large-scale donation deployment model. Comparable in donor mobilization and Vision 2030-aligned mission, though operates through grants rather than direct service delivery.
• Saudi Red Crescent Authority: Saudi humanitarian services organization with a similar mandate of serving pilgrims and travelers and a comparable nationwide operational footprint. While broader in scope (medical/emergency services), it shares the road-corridor pilgrim service orientation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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