Events

Foundation Ceremony of the Ismaili Centre, the Aga Khan Museum and Park May 28, 2010

Mr. Michael Tripp, Group Chief Executive, and Mrs. Jacinta Whyte, General Manager and Chief Agent for Canada, were invited to attend the Foundation Ceremony of the Ismaili Centre, The Aga Khan Museum and Park.   The museum, the first in North American solely devoted to Islamic art, is slated to open in 2013. It will be built alongside an Ismaili centre and park on a 7-hectare site at 49 Wynford Drive in Toronto.  More than 1,000 Islamic artifacts from China to the Iberian Peninsula will be showcased, and 200 will be on permanent display. The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims around the world, broke the ground and gave his blessing to the $300 million project - meant to promote knowledge of Islamic arts and culture and to provide an opportunity for people to dialogue and to bridge different cultures and faiths.