Ahmed Said Musa Patel [SEP] date of death
Ahmed Said Musa Patel
Ahmed Said Musa Patel (16 January 1937 to 8 September 2009) was the first Imam (Muslim cleric) in New Zealand and served as the principal spiritual and religious advisor to the Islamic community here from 1960 to 1986.
Biography.
The first Imam of the Ponsonby Mosque, the oldest in New Zealand, was Maulana Ahmed Said Musa Patel. Born on 16 January 1937 in Kaphleta in Surat, Gujarat, western India, Patel was one of seven sons of a farmer turned restaurant entrepreneur
- 26 August – Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet, businessman (born 1906)
- 29 August – Bob Parker, rower (born 1934)
- 30 August – Percy Tetzlaff, rugby union player (born 1920)
Deaths September.
- 8 September – Ahmed Said Musa Patel, Muslim religious leader (born 1937)
- 9 September – Dame Patricia Bergquist, zoology and anatomy academic (born 1933)
- 11 September – John Pattison, pilot, Battle of Britain veteran (born 1917)