TEHRAN-- Irans Deputy Culture Minister for Cultural Affairs Yaser Ahmadvand has actually visited several cultural centers in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, over the previous couple of days.One of the centers was the State Museum of the History of Religion, which is home to artifacts from ancient faiths to faiths such as Islam and Judaism.In meeting with Liubov Musienko, the acting director of the museum, Ahmadvand praised the museum for the items it is displaying in its Islam department.However, he kept in mind that the department needs to be refurbished and equipped adequately, and added that Iran is prepared to help the museum overhaul the section.
He likewise said that Irans Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance aspires to support the museum in arranging specialized meetings on Islam and Iran.
Ahmadvand likewise visited the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which houses a collection of more than 100,000 manuscripts and early printed books, including about 65 various languages, consisting of Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Georgian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Manchu, Mongolian, Persian, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Tajik, Tangut, Tibetan, Turkic and Uyghur.
There are many Iranian professionals having substantial experience in the remediation of manuscripts, he stated in a conference with Irina Fedorovna Popova, the director of the institute.
Due to the institutes great possibilities, it can be become a center for joint repair projects by Iranian and Russian professionals as the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is prepared to support such projects, he included.
Ahmadvand also held a conference with Ravil-Khazrat Pancheyev, the mufti of St.
Petersburg and the North-Western Region of Russia who is likewise the prayer leader of St.
Petersburg Cathedral Mosque.Ahmadvand said that the culture ministry will look for strategies to arrange mutual conferences on Islamic subjects and team up on Quranic activities with the mosque.Earlier on September 2, Ahmadvand and a variety of his associates were at the 35th Moscow International Book Fair to reveal a Russian translation of the commendation of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for Japanese-Iranian cultural figure Koniko Yamamuras narrative An Immigrant from the Land of the Sun .
Picture: Director of Russias Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Irina Fedorovna Popova (R) accompanies the Iranian Deputy Culture Minister for Cultural Affairs, Yaser Ahmadvand (L), in a check out to the institute.MMS/ YAW