Students from various places come here for their meditation and religious learning.

Some of them continue their studies for decades, as Shiite religious learning has no set end point.

This further led to the town's importance as a center of religious learning.

At all festivals there was a smorgasbord of spiritual and religious learning.

Russia was one of the main centers of Jewish life and religious learning before the 1917 revolution.

In the 6th century Tiberias was still the seat of Jewish religious learning.

This emphasis on religious learning exacts a high price in other ways.

Northumbria was famed as a centre of religious learning and arts.

Among other things, he created here an important Islamic library, and the town became a center of religious learning.

He received a reputation for religious learning from early age.