section_path: Nizari Ismaili Imamat/Diamond Jubilee Year of Imamat
section_name: Diamond Jubilee Year of Imamat
paragraph_text: Diamond Jubilee Year of Imamat
  
  The period from 11 July 2017 to 11 July 2018 marked the Diamond Jubilee of Karim al-Husseini’s 60th year as Imam. He travelled throughout the Diamond Jubilee year to countries where his humanitarian institutions operate to launch new programmes that help alleviate poverty and increase access to education, housing and childhood development. There were many concerts, a Jubilee Arts festival, and other events planned for tens of thousands of people. On 11 July 2018, following a historic agreement with the Portuguese Republic in 2015, al-Husseini formally designated the Henrique de Mendonça Palace in Lisbon as the Seat of the Ismaili Imamat, naming it the “Diwan of the Ismaili Imamat”.
  
  The period from 11 July 2017 to 11 July 2018 marked the Diamond Jubilee of Karim al-Husseini’s 60th year as Imam. He travelled throughout the Diamond Jubilee year to countries where his humanitarian institutions operate to launch new programmes that help alleviate poverty and increase access to education, housing and childhood development. There were many concerts, a Jubilee Arts festival, and other events planned for tens of thousands of people. On 11 July 2018, following a historic agreement with the Portuguese Republic in 2015, al-Husseini formally designated the Henrique de Mendonça Palace in Lisbon as the Seat of the Ismaili Imamat, naming it the “Diwan of the Ismaili Imamat”.