Astan Quds Razavi Central Library

The Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi ( Persian کتابخانه مرکزی آستان قدس رضوی) in Mashhad is the largest and oldest public religious reference library in Iran and one of the most important in the Islamic world. It was founded in 1457 and has over 50 branch libraries spread across the country and in India , a collection, some of which is up to 1,000 years old, of over 1.1 million media and the like. a. Books, manuscripts (approx. 30,000) and artifacts. Larger recent donations go back to the religious and political leader of Iran Ali Khamene'i . At the same time, the central library functions as an international Islamic research center . The current building in Mashhad, which was integrated into the building complex of the Imam Reza Shrine and several museums belonging to the library, opened in 1995 and covers an area of approx. 28,800 m².

Web links

Website of the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi

Individual evidence

↑ Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science . Volume 13, Marcel Dekker, New York 1975, ISBN 0-8247-2013-X , p. 26.

36.31501 59.48945Coordinates: 36 ° 18 ′ 54 ″ N , 59 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ E

[1] Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science . Volume 13, Marcel Dekker, New York 1975, ISBN 0-8247-2013-X , p. 26.