The Presidency of Religious Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, in partnership with the Bayan Society for Quran Teaching in Makkah, inaugurated the "Iqra" exhibition at the King Abdulaziz Endowment in the Clock Tower on 12 April 2026, as a permanent exhibition of rare Qurans and Quranic manuscripts and the history of Quran writing.
The exhibition displays treasures of handwritten Qurans across the ages, including a rare copy of the Ibn Al-Bawwab Quran, with interactive displays on the sciences of recitation and Uthmanic orthography, and receives pilgrims and visitors year-round.
