The Medina Madrasah is an Islamic secondary vocational educational institution, opened in 2001 as a branch of the Nizhny Novgorod Makhinur Madrasa in the village of Medyany in Krasnooktyabrsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Region. The institution is part of the structure of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Nizhny Novgorod Region (DUMNO) and continues to operate as a branch to this day.[1][2]
History and founding purpose
The Medina Madrasah was opened in 2001 with the goal of organizing an educational center in the area of compact Tatar settlement in the southeast of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1] The institution's creation was meant to make it easier for natives of the region's Tatar villages to obtain a religious education and to discourage young people from leaving rural areas.[1]
From 2005 to 2007, the Medina Madrasah operated as an independent educational institution, after which it once again became part of the Makhinur Madrasah's structure as a branch.[1]
Activities
The Medina Madrasah annually hosted advanced training courses for imams of rural mosques in Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1] By the mid-2000s, the teaching activity of the parent Makhinur Madrasah was concentrated specifically at Medina; in addition, the village of Medyany is home to the Rashida mekteb, which is also part of Makhinur's structure.[2]
The parent institution — the Nizhny Novgorod Islamic Makhinur Madrasah — was founded by DUMNO on October 29, 1994, and is the first non-state secondary vocational educational institution in the region's system of Muslim education.[1] The Makhinur Madrasah coordinates the activities of subordinate religious educational institutions: mektebs, summer Islamic schools, and the branch in Medyany, and also conducts advanced training courses for imams and Tatar and Arabic language courses.[1]
Sources
- Vremya N — A second madrasah registered in Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
- islamnn.ru — Makhinur Madrasah (IIC "Islam in Nizhny Novgorod," based on materials from the newspaper "Medina al-Islam") (archive)