{"id":31761,"date":"2017-01-12T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/palace-to-be-closed-as-the-king-rests\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:52:59","slug":"palace-to-be-closed-as-the-king-rests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/palace-to-be-closed-as-the-king-rests\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace to be closed as the king rests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandans and foreigners won\u2019t be able to visit the King\u2019s palace in Rukari of Nyanza on 15th January 2017 as it will be closed in honor of late King Kigeli V funerals which will be taking place in Mwima of Nyanza by the tomb of his elder brother King Mutara III Rudahigwa, according to a statement from the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (INMR). <\/p>\n<p>King Kigeli V breathed his last on 16th October 2016 in America where he lived. <\/p>\n<p>Funerals will be held at the palace of King Mutara III Rudahigwa before his body is laid in tomb. <\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s palace is located in Nyanza district, Southern Province 88 kilometers away from Kigali city. <\/p>\n<p>The palace belonged to King Mutara III Rudahigwa and turned into a cultural museum showing historical living conditions of Rwanda\u2019s kings. <\/p>\n<p>The palace is built with traditional materials as it was in 19th century. <\/p>\n<p>King Mutara III Rudahigwa and Queen Rosalie Gicanda were laid to rest on Mwima hill in Nyanza. <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of King Kigeli V family, Ezra Mpyisi has announced that Kigeli will too be buried at the same hillock of Mwima where he lived when crowned king on 28th July 1959. <\/p>\n<p>Funerals will be preceded by mass celebration held at the palace of King Mutara III Rudahigwa. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17570 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ingoro_y_umwami_mu_rukari-2.jpg\" alt=\"The palace of King Mutara III Rudahigwa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandans and foreigners won\u2019t be able to visit the King\u2019s palace in Rukari of Nyanza on 15th January 2017 as it will be closed in honor of late King Kigeli V funerals which will be taking place in Mwima of Nyanza by the tomb of his elder brother King Mutara III Rudahigwa, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31761"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31761"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}