1000 Quran Schools Launched in Egypt
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt’s Awqaf Ministry launched 1000 Quran schools in different parts of the country on Saturday.
They were inaugurated in a ceremony held in the 6th of October City in Giza Governorate, Akharkhabar website reported.
A number of Quranic personalities and religious officials were present at the ceremony.
The ministry has built the schools in two years with the aim of promoting Quranic education in the country and raising a generation familiar with the teachings of the Holy Book.
Egypt is a country in North Africa with a population of around 96 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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