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William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 [1] [2] [3] – 23 April 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, was a 19th-century British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre, and Britain's oldest Muslim organization, the Association of British Muslims.
The Grand Mosque of Bradford is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom.. Islam in England is the second largest religion after Christianity. [1] Most Muslims are immigrants from South Asia (in particular Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India) or descendants of immigrants from that region.
The Association of British Muslims began in Liverpool, England as the English Islamic Association, founded in 1889 by Abdullah Quilliam, [1] a 19th-century convert to Islam who opened one of England's first mosques, the Liverpool Muslim Institute, during the same year, [2] at about the same time that the Shah Jahan Mosque was built.
[90] [91] [92] The early Muslim community of Medina gave the call to prayer from the doorway or the roof of the house of Muhammad, which doubled as a place for prayer. [93] The first confirmed minarets in the form of towers date from the early 9th century under Abbasid rule and they did not become a standard feature of mosques until the 11th ...
The first purpose-built mosque in London, inaugurated on 23 October 1926 Wimbledon Mosque Wimbledon: 1976 D The first mainstream purpose-built mosque in South London and one of the first purpose-built mosques in London. [10] WEST LONDON; Baitul Wahid Mosque [11] Feltham: 2012 AMJ Capacity of 700 worshippers Harrow Central Mosque: Harrow: 2011 Sunni
The mosque became the first formal place of Islamic worship in England. Queen Victoria's British Indian employees and her British Indian secretary, Abdul Karim, used the mosque when the Queen visited Windsor Castle. A small number of dignitaries, students, and guests used the mosque until Leitner's death in 1899, following which the mosque closed.
The Presbyterian Church of Wales seceded from the Church of England in 1811 and formally formed itself into a separate body in 1823. With its origins in the 16th century, English Presbyterianism, was initially contained with the Church of England until the Great Ejection of 1662. During the 18th century there were few Presbyterian congregations ...
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community first began its media broadcasts in 1992 with Ahmadiyya Muslim Presentations (AMP), a part-time channel which would broadcast the weekly sermons of the caliph. This evolved into the 24-hour TV channel, now known as MTA1 World as the first Islamic TV channel in the UK in 1994.