98,000 audio cassettes of the Great Mosque of Mecca digitally cataloged
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 98,000 audio cassettes containing recitations of the Koran and speeches made at the Great Mosque of Mecca have been digitally cataloged.
The measure was taken by the general presidency of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, according to El-Balad News.
Sheikh Badr bin Abdullah al-Farih, head of the presidency’s policy affairs department, said the tapes were recorded between the years 1407 and 1436 AH (1987-2015).
He said the project was carried out in order to preserve the treasures belonging to the department which have an important religious and scientific status.
Al-Farih added that this was part of the ongoing efforts to save the documents and digitize them to facilitate access to Muslims around the world.
Mamdouh bin Saeed al-Khazaei, another head of the department, said the project to digitally catalog the tapes began in September 2020 and lasted 16 months.
He said the project was implemented to provide a database of recitations, speeches, lessons and sermons recorded at the Grand Mosque over 29 years.
Al-Khazaei described it as an achievement that would help promote Islamic teachings.
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