America announces the date of the official funeral of Jimmy Carter

The US Army said that the official funeral of former President Jimmy Carter will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on January 9.

Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died on Sunday at the age of 100.

President Joe Biden ordered that January 9th be a national day of mourning throughout the United States.

Biden said last year that Carter asked him to deliver the eulogy at his funeral.

The army said in a statement that Carter’s official funeral, which will last for six days, begins on Saturday, as the procession carrying his body will move through the city of Plains, which is his birthplace and located in the state of Georgia, and will pass by the farm where he grew up.

His body will then be transported to Atlanta, where he will lie in state at the Carter Presidential Center until the morning of January 7.

The body will then be flown to Washington, D.C., where it will lie in an open casket in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building until its national funeral service is held.

The family will hold a private funeral in Georgia later on January 9, after the ceremony ends at the Washington National Cathedral.

Carter is scheduled to be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn, in Plains.

It is noteworthy that Carter assumed the presidency in January 1977 after defeating Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 elections.