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Afghan Calligrapher Creates World's Biggest Koran

Afghan calligrapher Mohammad Sabir Khedri (center right) presents the biggest Koran in the world to Afghan officials during its inauguration ceremony in the Hakim Nasir Khosrow Balkhi library in Kabul on January 12.

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January 17, 2012
The book, which took five years to create at the cost of about $500,000, has pages 2.28 meters by 1.55 meters in size and weighs 500 kilograms. More

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