Some 200,000 Free Copies of Quran Distributed in Iran

TEHRAN (IQNA) – During the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations, 200,000 copies of the Holy Quran were handed out in underprivileged regions in different parts of Iran, an official said.

 

Mehdi Qarasheikhlu, the head of Iran’s Dar-ol-Quran Karim Organization, said the copies had been published with contributions from benefactors.

He made the remarks at a ceremony held Sunday to unveil new copies of the Quran published with benefactors’ help.

He said they were mostly distributed in rural areas and other regions on the occasion of the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations, marking the anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Qarasheikhlu said that currently there are more than 5,000 Quranic institutes and 6,000 rural Quran houses active in the Quran, noting that new copies of the Quran should be published to meet these centers’ needs, IRNA reported.

Referring to the activities of the Office for Supervising Quran Publication and Printing, affiliated to the Dar-ol-Quran Karim Organization, he said the office was founded in 1985 and since then has issued permissions for printing 158 million copies of the Quran.