In Palembang, there are many old mosques that are hundreds of years old from the Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam. In this city also has a religious tourism icon namely the Giant Qur'an.

Qur'an al-Akbar called The Giant Qur'an made of sheets of tembesu wood has a height of up to 15 meters.

"This giant Qur'an consists of 315 pieces of board divided into 630 pages, each page has a height of 177 cm, width of 140 cm and a thickness of 2.5 cm. The total thickness includes a cover of up to 9 meters," said The Administrator of Al-Akbar Qur'an Museum, Sarkoni

He explained that every page of the Qur'an is carved on both sides. In accordance with the typical color of Palembang songket, each page of the Qur'an is colored with a dark red base color. As for the letters of the holy verse engraved arise, painted in gold.

The Giant Quran, Sakroni said, is also equipped with tajwid and khataman prayer for beginners. Each sheet is decorated with flower motif carvings, on the edges are engraved typical ornaments of Palembang that are very beautiful in view and easy to read. According to him, it took a long time to make this giant woodcarving Qur'an. "The Qur'an was created from 2002 to 2009 in the Buntung Ladder area, Palembang," he said.

This Giant Qur'an is the largest and first in the world in the form of the Qur'an 30 juz made on the media of the type of wood tembesu. This largest Qur'an before it was officially published, deliberately displayed in the showroom of the Great Mosque of Palembang for three years to get correction from all devotees

The Al-Akbar Qur'an was inaugurated on January 30, 2012, the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) together with all delegates of the parliamentary conference of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) inaugurated the use of the Koran which is referred to as the largest woodcarving Koran ever. "This Qur'an has also been awarded by MURI (Indonesian Record Museum) as the largest wooden Qur'an in the world," he added