TEHRAN -- The world’s longest scroll of the Holy Quran inscribed by Tabrizi artist Esmaeil Hamed-Ghazani has been donated to the Astan-e Qods Razavi Library in Mashhad.

The 18kg scroll, made of ordinary white paper, which took 2500 hours to complete, is 1450 meters in length and 6cm wide.
Hamed-Ghazani remarked that he had undertaken the work to demonstrate the respect that Muslims have towards the Holy Quran, adding, “I wanted to prove to the world that the Quran has a very lofty and adored status amongst the people of the nation of Islam.”
“During the time that I was working on the inscription I was totally inspired by the household of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S), especially Imam Reza (AS), the eighth Imam, and I am delighted that the copy is now resting in the library adjacent to the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS),” he remarked.
The Astan-e Qods Razavi Library houses over 78,000 copies of rare Islamic manuscripts.