PRESS RELEASE – Death of Mr. Rafael Valencia

COMMUNIQUÉ
Death of Mr. Rafael Valencia

The Fundación Mezquita de Sevilla has conveyed its condolences to the family of Mr. Rafael Valencia on Saturday afternoon.

The vice-president of the Seville Mosque Foundation, Hajj Khalid Nieto, travelled yesterday to the SE30 funeral home, in order to bear witness to the feeling that the sudden death of our cordial friend Mr. Rafael Valencia has left in many members of the Foundation, may he rest in peace.

The visit was made in the company of the painter Hajj Ahmed Ben Yessef, with whom the deceased had a relationship of friendship and collaboration.

Both spoke with Rafael’s brother and son, to whom they expressed their sorrow for this loss and the good relations that united him with the former president of the Royal Seville Academy of Good Letters.

Certain that the city loses an illustrious neighbor who has transmitted from his knowledge as an Arabist a great love for our Andalusian past.

Everyone knows of his open character and his empathy for his adopted city and which he held in great esteem both for his knowledge and for the moderation with which he spoke out in difficult times in relation to the projects of our entity.

Rest in peace.

Seville, Monday, June 14, 2020