A large portrait of the late leader wearing his presidential sash stood on the altar, next to his coffin, which was draped in the Peruvian flag.
Outside, hundreds of people, many carrying Fujimori dolls and pictures, followed the proceedings on a giant screen.
After the funeral, his coffin was received with state honours at the presidential palace in a ceremony led by President Dina Boluarte. He was buried afterwards at the Huachipa ceremony east of Lima.
While nearly a quarter of a century has passed since he dramatically faxed in his resignation from Japan in the midst of a corruption scandal, Fujimori loomed large over public life in Peru right up until his death.
Thousands of people queued for hours on Thursday and Friday to view him lying in state in an open casket at the culture ministry.
“We’re very nostalgic,” 30-year-old Jesus Neyra told AFP on Friday night as he waited in line.
“A president who brought peace, economic stability, freedom and democracy to the country is gone. He left a great legacy”.
But relatives of the victims of army massacres carried out on his watch lamented that he went to the grave without showing remorse for their deaths.
“He left without asking forgiveness from their families, he made a mockery of us,” Gladys Rubina, the sister of one of the civilian victims, told AFP.
Source: CNA
