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| Mehmet Erkoç's aim is to revive this art, which is almost forgotten, he says. AA photo |
TURKEY---A researcher and writer living in the central province of Kırıkkale has opened prayer bead exhibitions in many parts of the world to introduce people to the art of these religious symbols with his own widening prayer bead collection, which includes some 100-year-old prayer beads.
Mehmet Erkoç has been researching and collecting prayer beads, known as tespih in Turkey, for 35 years. The prayer beads culture existed since the beginning of Islam, Erkoç said. [
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