Red Sea Endowments Directorate Honours 1,000 Quran Memorisers at Hurghada's Al-Mina Mosque
A ceremony at Al-Mina Mosque in Hurghada honoured 1,000 people who had memorised the Quran, organised by the Red Sea Endowments Directorate, Ahram Gate reported.
5 September 2026
1,000 people who have memorised the Quran were honoured at a ceremony held at Al-Mina Mosque in Hurghada, Ahram Gate reported, publishing video and photographs from the event.
The ceremony was organised by the Red Sea Endowments Directorate, the governorate branch of Egypt's Ministry of Endowments, which runs the governorate's mosques and the religious teaching that takes place in them.
Endowments directorates across Egypt hold memorisation circles at their mosques and mark completions with honouring ceremonies. What makes this one notable is the scale the report leads on — a thousand people recognised in a single governorate event, in a coastal governorate whose population is far smaller than those of the Nile Valley.
The report does not break that figure down. It gives no age range, no split between the governorate's towns, no names of attending officials, and no indication of whether prizes or stipends accompanied the recognition.
- Location: Al-Mina Mosque, Hurghada
- Organiser: Red Sea Endowments Directorate
- Number honoured: 1,000
For residents, the ceremony is a measure of how large the mosque-based teaching network across the Red Sea Governorate has become — an institution that operates largely out of view of the resort strip but reaches thousands of families in Hurghada, Safaga and the towns south of them. For visitors, it is a reminder that the coast's year-round community life runs on a calendar of its own, quite separate from the hotel season.