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Begum Aga Khan III - Funeral photos-2000-07-04

Date: 
Saturday, 2000, July 1
Location: 
Source: 
www.ismaili.net

Ismaili Muslims on Tuesday July 4, 2000 in Aswan, Egypt, carry the coffin of the widow of the late Aga Khan III, Begum Om Habibeh, to her final resting place next to her husband, at the Aga Khan II's hilltop mausoleum. Begum Om Habibeh, a former beauty queen who died Saturday in the southern French town of Le Cannet at the age of 94, was buried here Tuesday following simple religious ceremonies at hervilla and at the mausoleum on the banks of the Nile.
(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

The current leader of the Ismaili Muslim community Prince Karim AgaKhan, front right, his uncle Sader al-din, top right, and his half-brother Prince Amin, black hat left, Tuesday July 4, 2000, look on the coffin of the widow of the late Aga Khan III, Begum Om Habibeh, in Aswan, Egypt.Begum Om Habibeh, a former beauty queen who died Saturday in the southern French town of Le Cannet at the age of 94, was buried here Tuesday following simple religious ceremonies at hervilla and at the mausoleum on thebanks of the Nile.
(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

- Jul 04 6:25 PM ET

Ismaili Muslims carry Tuesday, July 4, 2000, the coffin of the widow of the late Aga Khan III, Begum Om Habibeh, into an ambulance boat at the river Nile at Aswan, Egypt, as she is taken to the mausoleum to be laid to rest next to her husband. Begum Om Habibeh, a former beauty queen who died Saturday in the southern French town of Le Cannet at the age of 94, was buried here Tuesday following simple religious ceremonies at hervilla and at the mausoleum on the banks
of the Nile.
(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- Jul 04 3:25 PM ET


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