“Service to the world community is a family tradition for His Highness”, declared the UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim as he welcomed Mawlana Shah Karim to the United Nations on December 11, 1980. The Aga Khan was provided a forum to share the first results of ongoing research for a contemporary new Muslim architecture at the Trusteeship Council Chambers which were crowded with UN diplomats, architects, journalists and others for the special event. Fittingly, the event was sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, the agency responsible for building the physical and economic infrastructures in the developing world, which was at that time led by Bradford Morse. Photograph: Ismaili Forum, UK, July 1981, via Barakah
“Service to the world community is a family tradition for His Highness”, declared the UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim as he welcomed Mawlana Shah Karim to the United Nations on December 11, 1980. The Aga Khan was provided a forum to share the first results of ongoing research for a contemporary new Muslim architecture at the Trusteeship Council Chambers which were crowded with UN diplomats, architects, journalists and others for the special event. Fittingly, the event was sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, the agency responsible for building the physical and economic infrastructures in the developing world, which was at that time led by Bradford Morse. Photograph: Ismaili Forum, UK, July 1981, via Barakah
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