May 2013

By Saki Lee

Khankah Gathering Space

At the end of April, some eighty pilgrims from various Sufi communities met together at Fazal Manzil (“House of Blessing”), the home of Hazrat Inayat Khan and his family in Suresnes, France. For many it was their very first visit.

In the 1920s Sufi seekers used to gather in Suresnes, France each summer for two months of sacred study, practice, prayer, and remembrance. After the Second World War the municipality appropriated the large Sufi garden to make room for urban sprawl and the Summer School moved elsewhere.