According to masjed-alkufa website, the ceremony was held at the Grand Mosque of Kufa, a city in the south of the country.
The Dar-ol-Quran of the mosque organized the event, which began with recitation of verses from the Quran by Egyptian Qari Sheikh Ahmed Abalehi.
According to the panel of judges, Abdullah Zubair Hadi from Karbala University, and Ali Javad Hussein and Majid Abdul Kadhim Shamkhi from Baghdad’s Al-Mustansiriya University respectively came first to third in the recitation category.
In memorization, the top winners were Shihan Qadir from Duhok University, Hassan Abdul Reza Abdullah from Basra University, and Muntazar Raad Khaled from Misan University.