Iranian Village Has Highest Per Capita Number of Quran Memorizers in World
With a population of 1200, the village has arguably the highest per capita number of Quran memorizers in the world.
It was in 1996 when efforts began to turn the village, then known as Mohammadabad, into a Quranic village.
Back then, when there was not a single memorizer of the Quran in Mohammadabad, a number of clerics began working to promote the culture Quran reading and memorization in the village.
They launched a Quranic-cultural institute named Bayt al-Ahzan Hazrat Zahra (SA) which started hosting Quran reading and memorization courses.
Soon the institute developed its activities and now it has 165 branches across the country, according to Fars news agency.
In 2001, a Quran memorization school was inaugurated in Mohammadabad and in just one year, seven of its students learned the entire Quran by heart.
Not only those from Mohammadabad, but people from nearby villages and towns, and even from other countries like Afghanistan and Indonesia, registered at the school to memorize the Quran.
By now, some 200 memorizers of the entire Quran have graduated from the school, including 63 from Mohammadabad, now known as Quranabad (the suffix ‘abad’ in Persian means village; hence, Quranabad means the village of the Quran).
