Construction of Quran Teaching Center Begins in Faladie, Mali

A Quran teaching center is being built in the city of Faladie, in the African country of Mali.

The Cultural-Islamic Institute of the city is establishing the center in cooperation with the Turkish-based  World Islamic Culture society, Malijet website reported.

The center will be used to teach Quran memorization and recitation to children and teenagers.

As well as classrooms, it will include a prayers hall, a library, a dormitory, and an administrative section.

Construction of the Quranic center will be completed by the end of the current year and registration for those willing to take the Quranic courses of the center will start in early 2015.

In a ceremony held to mark the start of the construction project, Turkey’s ambassador to Mali thanked the minister of religious affairs and the Supreme Islamic Council of Mali for their efforts to get the project underway.

Muslims currently make up approximately 90 percent of the population of Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa bordered by Algeria to the north, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania to the west. 

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