By AFP Staff Writer, *AFP: Day of mourning in Albania for Bektashi leader* - Focus News Agency - Sofia, Bulgaria; Monday, April 4, 2011
Tirana: Authorities in Albania have declared Monday [April 4th] a national day of mourning in honour of the leader of the Bektashi World Centre, Haxhi Ded Reshat Bardhi, who has died at the age 76, AFP informs.
Bardhi, who headed the Bektashi -- an Islamic Sufi order -- for 18 years, died Saturday at a hospital in Tirana after a long illness.
The national flag was to be at half-mast at all public buildings and tributes would be held at a convention centre. The funeral was to be held on Tuesday at the Bektashi World Center in Tirana, the government said in a press release.
The World Center of Bektashi, the Islamic order of dervishes that is said to have around seven million followers worldwide, was moved from Turkey to the Albanian capital Tirana in 1929.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
A National Day Of Mourning
Tirana: Authorities in Albania have declared Monday [April 4th] a national day of mourning in honour of the leader of the Bektashi World Centre, Haxhi Ded Reshat Bardhi, who has died at the age 76, AFP informs.
Bardhi, who headed the Bektashi -- an Islamic Sufi order -- for 18 years, died Saturday at a hospital in Tirana after a long illness.
The national flag was to be at half-mast at all public buildings and tributes would be held at a convention centre. The funeral was to be held on Tuesday at the Bektashi World Center in Tirana, the government said in a press release.
The World Center of Bektashi, the Islamic order of dervishes that is said to have around seven million followers worldwide, was moved from Turkey to the Albanian capital Tirana in 1929.
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By AFP Staff Writer, *AFP: Day of mourning in Albania for Bektashi leader* - Focus News Agency - Sofia, Bulgaria; Monday, April 4, 2011Tirana: Authorities in Albania have declared Monday [April 4th] a national day of mourning in honour of the leader of the Bektashi World Centre, Haxhi Ded Reshat Bardhi, who has died at the age 76, AFP informs.
Bardhi, who headed the Bektashi -- an Islamic Sufi order -- for 18 years, died Saturday at a hospital in Tirana after a long illness.
The national flag was to be at half-mast at all public buildings and tributes would be held at a convention centre. The funeral was to be held on Tuesday at the Bektashi World Center in Tirana, the government said in a press release.
The World Center of Bektashi, the Islamic order of dervishes that is said to have around seven million followers worldwide, was moved from Turkey to the Albanian capital Tirana in 1929.
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