It was held the competition “Imam of the year”
On November 8, it was held the Republican stage of the competition “Imam of the year”. The event was organized by the Muslims board of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
The competition aimed to choose the most intelligent imam of the Uzbekistan. Traditionally, the event was begun with prayers pray from the Holy Quran.
The contest was marked in a 70-point system. At the beginning of the contest participants chose the numbers and identified their order of participation.
The conditions of the competition are answering questions, interpretation Holy Quran’s verses.
All participants were tested and the winners of the contest were chosen.
It is important to give people the reliable knowledge on Islam. In this way imams play the main role in leading society.
International recognition of Uzbekistan’s cultural heritage
As previously reported, following the results of the 48th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, ten outstanding architectural monuments of Tashkent modernism of the second half of the 20th century received international recognition at once.
This was the result of the state policy pursued by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev aimed at preserving, studying and popularizing the national cultural heritage.
The UNESCO World Heritage List includes: the Jemchug Residential Building, the State Museum of History of Uzbekistan, the Peoples’ Friendship Palace, the State Museum of Art of Uzbekistan, the Tashkent State Circus building, the Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, the National Palace of Cinema of Uzbekistan, the Chorsu market, the Cosmonauts metro station, and the Sun Heliocomplex.
These monuments represent a harmonious blend of modernist ideas and Central Asian architectural traditions.
Gayane Umerova, Chairman of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation and Chairman of the National Commission for UNESCO, stressed that the inclusion of these sites in the World Heritage List returns an important part of the modern architectural history of Uzbekistan to the international context of the heritage of the 20th century and the world modernist movement, and also imposes a long-term responsibility to preserve these buildings with maximum professional care, to ensure their integral role in the life of the city and to pass on knowledge about them to future generations.
B. Khudoyberdiyev, UzA
