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Our association The Sustainability of the Qur’an Institute, Bayrampasa Yesil Cami (Green Mosque in Bayrampasa district, Istanbul), which was founded in 1963 to provide educational and social services to people, acquired the identity of endowment (foundation) in 1986 called the Bayrampasa Green Mosque Foundation for Serving Knowledge. In addition, it still provides religious education services to about 1000 students annually, and educational grants for about 500 orphan families. The Wakf provides services in our branches: The Institute of Teaching Qur’an Tasoluk for boys of primary school graduates, and The Institute of Teaching Quran Bayrampasa Yesil Cami (Green Mosque) for middle school (preparatory) graduates, and The Institute of Teaching Qur’an Tasoluk (Green Mosque in Tasoluk, Arnavutkoy/Istanbul) for girls of middle school graduates.

• Quran lectures, teaching basic religious information
• Hafiz lessons
• Etiquette (do’s and don’ts), faith, worship, politics, moral lessons, along with the memorisation education
• Routine Gallipoli sightseeing
• Food banquets for successful students
• Trips to historical places for all students, Bosporus tours and other various programs

Abdullah Ustaosmanoglu

He was born in Trabzon. After completing Hafiz, he joined Arabic and education lessons. In 1957 he took his diploma and started to work as an honorary imam-hatip in Kucukkoy Central Mosque. Abdullah Hocaefendi, who was appointed as an honorary imam-hatip in the Bayrampasa Yesil Mosque, prior to its official establishment in 1963, then officially began his job as imam. He represented Turkiye along with hafizes from domestic and abroad. He had been one of the committee member, which opened the first Qur’an course in Cyprus in 1973 and built five mosques, especially the Central Mosque in Almaata, which was the capital of Kazakhstan during those years. After serving 42 years and 5 months as imam-hatip and teaching Quran, in 2001 he retired but still has been providing his precious counsel ever since. He is married and he got two children, with one of them is hafiz, and he got hundreds more sons which he had trained and educate to be hafiz.