The Funeral in Cairo on this day in 1980, following his death from cancer just a year after being exiled. The Funeral Procession was followed by dignitaries, including the King Constantine II of Greece, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and former President Richard Nixon, through the streets of Cairo to the Al Rifa’i Mosque, where the Shah remains buried alongside his former brother-in-law, King Farouk of Egypt, and where his father, had also initially been buried.
In general, when a funeral takes place at a funeral home chapel or in a religious sanctuary, the service is immediately followed by the transportation of the body to the cemetery or crematory for burial. At the conclusion of the service a funeral director makes an announcement of the location for the burial. A family may elect for a private burial in which case the announcement may provide a location or refer to how and when further respects may be paid to the family. Alternatively, if it is not a private burial, then those in attendance at the funeral service may follow the hearse and the family in a procession. When the body is moved to the cemetery it is transported in a hearse.
