A delegation from Matenadaran recently visited the Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library in Qom, Iran. Director Mahmoud Marashi Najafi, son of the centre’s founder, welcomed the delegation.
The library is the largest centre of Islamic manuscripts in Iran and the third largest in the Islamic world, with a collection of approximately 85,000 manuscripts in different languages, including religious and scientific texts.
The delegation went on a tour of the manuscript repository, digitization, and restoration departments as part of their visit. The centre’s director, Mahmoud Marashi Najafi, expressed his willingness to cooperate with Matenadaran and emphasized the importance of studying the Armenian manuscripts in the centre. Examining these manuscripts for the first time is a significant milestone in the cooperation between the two centres.
