Hundreds of Quran Memorizers Honored in Egypt’s Faiyum Governorate
The Al-Azhar Islamic Center organized the event in cooperation with Ahl al-Quran School, affiliated to the governorate’s Awqaf (endowment) department.
Among those honored for their Quranic achievement were 350 boys and girls who have learned the entire Holy Quran by heart.
The rest of them have memorized half or one-fourth of the Holy Book, CAIRO24 website reported.
A number of Egyptian scholars and thinkers, Al-Azhar officials, media representatives and other groups of people attended the ceremony.
Egypt is a country in North Africa with a population of around 100 million.
Muslims account for around 90 percent of the country’s total population.
Quranic activities are very common in the Muslim-majority Arab country and many of the Muslim world’s top qaris in the past and present have been Egyptian.
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