The largest portrait of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman was unveiled in Jeddah on Tuesday. Abdullah Al-Thaqfi, director general of education in Jeddah, unveiled it in the presence of senior officials of the education and security departments to mark the Kingdom’s 86th National Day celebrations. It took 40 days for the Saudi painter Muhammad Asiri to complete the painting with acrylics on a raw canvas of about 216 square meters. The Education Department has completed the necessary procedures for the portrait’s entry into the Guinness Book of World Record. — SPA
