A total of 1,355 students benefited from the summer courses for learning Holy Quran offered by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs for citizens and expatriates.
Religious Call and Guidance Department at the Ministry offered various courses at 23 centres for learning the Holy Quran across the country in a bid to create opportunity for the children to utilize their summer vacation to learn holy Quran.
The courses include learning to recite Holy Quran, memorising parts of it and revising those the students memorised earlier.
The centres that participated in the summer courses for this year include Ibn Al Qayyim Center in Al Mamoura, Ibn Taymiyah Center in Beni Hajar, Ibn Zakwan Center in Al Ma’rad Area, Ibn Othaymeen Center in Al Aziziyah, Abu Hareth Al Baghdadi Center in Dukhan, Abu Bakr Al Siddique in Umm Ghuwailina, Abu Hanifa Center at Old Airport, Al Imam Al Duri Center in Salata, Imam Nafi Center in Madinat Khalifa and Bilal bin Haris in Al Saad.
Other centres are the centre of Tirmidhi in the north, the centre of Tamim Al Dari in New Rayyan, Jassim bin Ahmed Center in Umm Salal Ali and Jafar bin Abdul Muttalib in Bin Mahmoud, and the centre of Hafs Al Koufi in Al Dafna Al Zubair Bin Al Awam Center in Abu Nakhla, Saeed Bin Zaid Center in Al Naim, and Al Shatbi Center in Kharaitiyat.