Qol Sharif Mosque.. where the largest Quran in the world is located

  Arabiaweather.com- Ismail Qasimi- The Qol Sharif Mosque was built in the 16th century AD, and bore its name in relation to the leader "Qol Sharif" who died with his students in the year 1552 AD during their defense of the city of Kazan against the Russian forces. The mosque was destroyed by Ivan the Terrible in The same year, until it was rebuilt from 1996 until its opening in 2005.

The city of Kazan is the capital of the Russian Federal Republic of Tatarstan, and it is one of the republics with a Muslim majority. The city of Kazan is historically linked to the conversion of the Tatars to Islam and the establishment of the Russian state, and then the emergence of the third capital of the Russian Federation after Moscow.

The magnificent mosque "Qol Sharif" is the congregational mosque in the city of Kazan and one of the most important mosques in the Republic of Tatarstan. It has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

It is the second largest mosque in Russia and Europe (excluding Turkey) after the Chechnya Heart Mosque. The area of the mosque is 19,000 square meters, and it can accommodate about 5,000 worshipers in the inner hall and about 10,000 worshipers in the outer yard.

The largest Quran in the world

The mosque contains a central dome with a height of 39 meters and four minarets with a height of 57 meters. In the magnificent mosque complex with its design, there is a museum of Islamic culture in the Volga region. The museum includes a number of ancient manuscripts and libraries.

Among the most important things that the mosque displays in its library is the largest Qur’an in the world , which is two meters long and one and a half meters wide, while it weighs about 800 kilograms, and it was printed on Scottish paper.