WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter’s state funeral has been set for 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, with President Joe Biden declaring a national day of mourning in honor of the late 100-year-old former president.

His final journey back to Washington will begin this Saturday, Jan. 4, in his home state of Georgia with services and memorials scheduled in his birthplace of Plains, Ga., and Atlanta.

On Monday, Biden ordered the federal government to close on Jan. 9 in honor of the 39th president and the leaders of both parties in Congress announced Carter would lie in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 7 and until his funeral service at Washington National Cathedral two days later. Biden is expected to be among those who will euologize Carter. 

“I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr.,” Biden wrote in a proclamation announcing Carter’s death on Sunday and setting Jan. 9 as national day of mourning. “I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance.”

Members of the public are invited to pay their respects at the U.S. Capitol from 7 p.m. to midnight on Jan. 7 and from 7 a.m. on Jan. 8 until 7 a.m. on Jan. 9. 

On Saturday morning, the memorials for Carter will begin at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Ga., where current and former U.S. Secret Service special agents in charge will carry the former president to a hearse and escort the motorcade as it departs with his surviving family members.

Then, the late president’s body will travel to his hometown of Plains for a “brief pause in front of his family’s farm” and childhood home, according to the military task force that oversees state funerals of former presidents. While outside his family’s farm, the National Park Service will salute Carter and ring the farm’s bell 39 times. 

Later in the day, in Atlanta, the procession will visit Georgia’s state capitol for a moment of silence with Gov. Brian Kemp and other Georgia officials. Carter served as the state’s governor from 1971 to 1975. Then, the late president’s remains will travel to his presidential center for a 4 p.m. service and then lie in repose as mourners visit from 7 p.m. on Saturday through 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

On the morning of the seventh, Carter will be flown from an Air Force base in Georgia to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, just outside Washington. At 1:15 p.m., a hearse carrying his remains will travel to the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington and then transferred to a horse drawn military wagon known as a “caisson” for the procession to the Capitol.

Members of Congress are expected to pay their respects at the Capitol Rotunda at 3 p.m. on Jan. 7.

After his funeral in Washington on Jan. 9, Carter and his family will be flown back to Georgia for a private funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains that afternoon and a private interment on his family farm. He will be buried alongside his wife Rosalynn, who died last year. 

The U.S. Navy will conduct a flyover “in honor of former President Carter’s naval service and time as commander-in-chief shortly after the motorcade’s arrival at the residence,” according to the official plans.

Carter attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served as an active-duty Navy officer from 1946 to 1953, eventually leaving the service as a lieutenant.