Huge Quranic center to be set up in Holy Karbala

The biggest scientific, cultural and Quranic center in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, is planned to be set up by the General Secretariat of the Imam Hussein holy shrine.
According to the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, the project will be implemented on a 25000-square-meter site in the holy city.
Manaf Fuad Hassan, the executive director of the project, said that the center will be called “Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, Center” and will host about 500 seminary students and academic figures.
Courses on Islamic teachings and Quranic sciences will be held at the center, he added.
The center will be designed and built based on Islamic architectural patterns and it will have two separate faculties for male and female students. Each of the faculties will be built in three floors, and each will have a library.
The project will approximately cost 800 billion Iraqi Dinars and take three years to complete.