{"id":3753,"date":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:45:35","slug":"riay-tatary-religious-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"Riay Tatary, religious leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Riay Tatary Bakry – a Syrian religious leader, chairman of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain \u2011 –  died on 6 April,2020 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was imam of the Central Mosque in Madrid, Spain, as well as president of the Islamic Commission of Spain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was born in Damascus on 19 March 1948. He settled in Spain in 1970 and studied Medicine at the University of Oviedo. He took part in the advisory committee for Freedom of Religion of the Ministry of Justice, being endowed the Encomienda of the Order of Civil Merit in 1998.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was interned in March 2020 in the Hospital de la Paz due to COVID-19 along with his wife; Tatary died weeks later, on 6 April, at the age of 72. He was buried at the Muslim cemetery of Griñón.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Riay Tatary Bakry – a Syrian religious leader, chairman of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain \u2011 –  died on 6 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was imam of the Central Mosque in Madrid, Spain, as well as president of the Islamic Commission of Spain. He was born in Damascus on 19 March 1948. 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