Winners of Iran’s Imitative Recitation Festival Awarded

IQNA – The second edition of Iran’s Imitative Recitation Festival wrapped up in a ceremony where winners were announced and awarded.

The ceremony was held in the northern city of Qazvin on Monday evening.

The winners were named in three groups of Distinguished Reciters, Excellent Reciters and Commendable Reciters.

Mohammad Amin Nabilu, Mohammad Reza Poursafar, Mojtaba Malek Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza Taheri, Sobhan Abdollahi and Taha Asgarnejad were the winners in the first group.

Abolfazl Nabilu, Hadi Qorbani, Mohammad Sadeq Saremi, Ali Arjomandi, Amir Ali Kheyri, Mohammad Hossein Azimi, and Mobin Mahdavi were those awarded in the second group.

In the third group, Abolfazl Edalathah, Seyed Alireza Molayi, Abolfazl Ahmadi, Seyed Ali Mousavi Moqani and Mohammad Reza Najafi were named as commendable reciters.

The winners went home with cash prizes worth 400 million to 1 billion rials.

Addressing the closing ceremony, Hojat-ol-Islam Seyed Mostafa Majidi, the host, highlighted the efforts of the organizers and the good reception of the event by families in Qazvin.

Eight veteran Quran activists of the Qzvin Province were also honored at the event.

A total of 52 young and teenage qaris took part in the final round of the festival in Qazvin.

They competed in reciting the Holy Quran in the style of one of renowned Egyptian reciters.

This year’s festival built on the success of the inaugural event, which introduced the concept of imitative recitation—a practice where participants replicate the styles of renowned qaris—to a wider audience.

Last year’s event was held in Tehran’s Imamzadeh Saleh.

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