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First Qur’an Festival to be held at the Ontario Science Center
First Qur’an Festival, Toronto
August 13, and 14, 2011
It gives us great pleasure to inform you that First Qur’an Festival will be held at the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario on August 13 and 14, 2011, insha-Allah.
The festival starts at 11.00 am and ends at 8.00 PM on both days.
We will very much appreciate it if you will kindly publicize the event amongst the members of your masjid. In this respect kindly let us know whether you prefer hard or soft copies of the flyers.
In addition to the exhibits provided by us, the purpose of the festival is to also provide exposure to Muslim artists who have produced Qur’an related art works. Selected works will also be exhibited at the festival.
Those interested should provide us with their names, email addresses and telephone numbers so that further information can be provided to them.
The Qur’an festival, which is being celebrated in the auspicious month of Ramadan, the month of the revelation, will, insha-Allah, include the following:
- Exhibition of exquisite copies of the Qur’an
- Exhibition of Paintings
- Exhibition of calligraphy
- Qur’anic exhibition
- Qur’anic Movies
- Qur’anic multimedia
- Recitation of Qur’an
- Qur’an in Virtual space
- Qur’an competition and award of prizes for children
- Quran and children (Special section for children which includes painting, reading story books and so on)
The success of the festival is entirely dependent on your support and participation of your congregation. We, therefore, will highly appreciate your support.
In case you need further information, please contact The Executive Committee of the Qur’an Festival at:
Tel. 905 764 9182
Or by email at: mail@imamrezacircle.org
Jazak-Allah
Ghulam sajan
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Qur’an Festival
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Will be holding its
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On
Thursday November 4, 2010
At
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1510 Drew Road Mississauga, ON L5S 1S5
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