The Bu Talmit Quranic and Quranic Sciences Center was inaugurated in a ceremony in Abi Talmat region on Monday, September 9, Al-Siraj website reported.
It has been established by the Mauritanian Al-Anara Society and funded by a Qatari-based institute named Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah.
The Quranic center includes a mosque and a restaurant and has 10 Quran masters teaching Quranic sciences.
Around 50 students have already signed up to study Quranic sciences at the center and number is expected to rise.
Abdullah Al-Ibad Walad Ajdud who heads the administrative council of the Al-Anara Society, said the center aims to serve the Holy Quran and promote Quranic sciences in the region.
Mauritania is a country in West Africa whose population is almost entirely made up of adherents of Islam.
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