Guests From Damascus

The visit to the USSR of a delegation of Muslim religious leaders of the Syrian region of the United Arab Republic, headed by Mohammed Abul Yusser Abedin. Reception of the delegation by the chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Mufti Z. Babakhanov; the UAR Ambassador to the USSR Mohammed El-Kuni is present. Arrival of the delegation to Tashkent; sightseeing of the city, visiting the library named after A. Navoi, Tashkent textile mill. Conversations of members of the delegation with Muslim believers. Samarkand city. Inspection of the architectural ensemble of the Registan square, the ensemble of Shakhi-Zinda mausoleums, the Timurid burial vault Gur-Emir, the Bibi-Khanym mosque. The head of the delegation, M. A. Yu. Abedin, reads a sermon for believers in the cathedral mosque of Haji Zulmurad in Samarkand. Members of the delegation at the Samarkand tea-packing factory, on the Engels collective farm. Delegates lay flowers at the grave of the famous propagator of Islam Ismail Bukhari, who was buried near the city of Samarkand. The city of Stalinabad. Members of the delegation examine books in the Ferdowsi library, visit rural and city mosques. Acquaintance of the delegation with the sights of Leningrad: Smolny, the Hermitage, Peterhof. Moscow city. Inspection of the Kremlin, the Museum-apartment of V. I. Lenin, visiting the Moscow State University, the Likhachev automobile plant, the All-Union Construction Exhibition, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. The city of Zagorsk. Meeting of members of the Muslim delegation with representatives of the clergy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Delegates visiting the temples of the Lavra. Moscow city. A delegation of UAR religious leaders in the Moscow cathedral mosque. A member of the delegation, Muhammad El-Hakim, is delivering a sermon. Believers are praying. Reception in honor of the delegation of religious leaders of the UAR in the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Speakers: Chairman of the Council A. A. Puzin, Chairman of the Soviet Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with the Countries of the Arab East S. V. Kaftanov, Ambassador of the UAR in the USSR Mohammed El-Kuni, head of the delegation Mohammed Abul Yusser Abedin. Seeing the delegation at the airport. Speakers muftis Z. Babakhanov, Sh. Khiyaletdinov, head of the delegation.

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