Al-Azhar Expanding Quran Centers for Children

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt's Al-Azhar Islamic Center announced that 538 centers for children have been inaugurated recently.

Al-Azhar has inaugurated 538 Quran centers for children in the Arab country’s villages and remote areas, bringing the total number of such centers to 1045, Cairo24 reported.

Interested children in Quranic courses on recitation or memorization can take an entrance exam and then start learning skills at the centers.

Abdelmuneim Fuad, an official with Al-Azhar center, says there are plans underway to solve the problems of these centers and equip them with new technologies.

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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