World's Largest Quran

Calligrapher Mohammed Sabeer Hussani unveils the 7-foot tall, 5-foot wide Quran he and a team of apprentices worked on for five years in Kabul, Afghanistan










Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri, second right, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the holy Quran turns a page at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Hussaini Khedri claims to have completed the writing of the world's biggest copy of Islam's holy Quran in 5 years along with his nine students with the financial support of a well- known figure Afghan Sayed Mansoor Nadri

The book  weighs in at 1,102 pounds and contains 218 pages of cloth and paper, bound in a leather cover made from the skins of 21 goats.

The world's largest Quran, according to the Hakim Nasir-e-Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center, which commissioned the work for about $1 million.


Calligrapher Mohammed Sabeer Hussani discusses his work with Islamic spiritual leader Alhaj Sayed Mansoor Naderi, who footed the bill for the project, and other Islamic leaders during the unveiling ceremony in Kabul

Hussani surveys his "labor of love" in its new home at the Hakim Nasir-e-Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center in Kabul