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Aga Khan III - Final Burial Ceremony at Aswan in the Mausoleum - 1959-02-19
Posted January 30th, 2010 by heritage
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Thursday, 1959, February 19Location:
On 19 February 1959, the 48th Imam was finally laid to rest in the mausoleum which had taken over 18 months to construct.
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