Agha Khan Mausoleum

Have an unusual tour to the historical place of the Aga khan shrine is located near St. Simon's Monastery on the west bank of the Nile River with a panoramic sight of Aswan.

The Aga Khan was the imam of the Isma’ili, a Shi’ite sect, which is headquartered in India but has followers all over the world. Members of this sect consider themselves direct spiritual descendants of the Fatimids.

The Aga Khan was educated in Europe and was very rich. On his birthday in 1945, he was weighed with diamonds and then distributed to his followers. He died in 1957.

 The Aga Khan Mausoleum is elegant with its use of pink granite, and its construction was inspired by the Fatimid architecture of Cairo.

The shrine was built at the request of his wife Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, who was also known as, Begum or Om Habiba.
 The wife Begum lived in the white villa below, and kept putting a red rose on his white marble grave from Carrara until her death on July 1, 2000, and to this day, at Begum's request, the red rose still finds its way to the Mausoleum.

The Aga Khan's wife closed the mausoleum to the public in 1997 to allow the Aga Khan to rest peacefully away from the hustle and bustle of life. However, the Mausoleum can be seen while riding the felucca.