Quran Exhibition Planned in Brazil’s Most Populous City

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sao Paulo, the most populous city in Brazil, is scheduled to host a Quran exhibition next week.

Slated to be launched in a ceremony on Monday, May 1, it will run for 8 days, Al-Qala News website reported.

The Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance will organize the Quranic event.

Sidney Romero, director of the Middle East department at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a number of local officials will take part in the inauguration ceremony.

It will also be attended by a number of Brazilian graduates of Saudi universities as well as official from the Islamic Dawah Center in Latin America.

The exhibition will showcase Quran manuscripts and publications of the King Fahd Holy Quran Printing Complex.

Visitors will also be gifted translations of the Holy Quran in different languages.

The King Fahd Holy Quran Printing Complex, which is based in the holy city of Medina, has published Quran translations in over 40 different languages.

It produces about 10 million copies of the Holy Book a year.

Brazil is a big country in South America. Islam is practiced by over 200,000 Brazilians—making it the largest Muslim community in Latin America.

Most of the country’s Muslims are Arab in origin, with smaller but growing numbers of Brazilian converts. The Brazilian Muslim community includes both Sunni and Shia Muslims.

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