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Aga Khan III Event - 1926-03-24
Posted March 17th, 2009 by heritage
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Date:
Wednesday, 1926, March 24 - Thursday, 1926, April 8Location:
March 24, 1926 - Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III during an extensive trip to East Africa made a speech and also laid the foundation stone at a mosque in Nairobi.
The ceremony was led at 5 p.m. and was reported in 'The East African
Standard', Nairobi, weekly edition on March 27, 1926. Mowlana Sultan Mohamed
Shah also donated Shs.30,000 towards the fund for the mosque. Mowlana Sultan
Mohamed Shah also during this trip visited various Ismaili schools and left for
France on April 8, 1926. Both 'The Mombasa Times' and 'The East African
Standard' covered this trip.
person_place_reference:
H.H. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III- 2650 reads