Woking Muslim Mission

Woking Muslim Mission

The Woking Muslim Mission was founded in 1913 by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (d. December 1932) at the Mosque in Woking, 30 miles southwest of London and was managed by members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam, AAIL). It was run by Lahore Ahmadiyya missionaries until the mid-1960s.

Woking Mosque

The Woking Mosque was built by Dr G.W. Leitner (d. 1899) in 1889. It was only opened up and used on special occasions. In 1913 Leitner's son was on the point of selling the mosque to a developer. The Indian lawyer and follower of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, just arrived in England, was inspired to establish an Islamic mission in the mosque. The Khwaja, with the help of some prominent Indian Muslims in England, such as Syed Ameer Ali, went to court and had the Mosque placed under a Trust. [http://www.shahjahanmosque.org.uk/02_02.html History of the Mosque] , page 2, viewed at July 15th, 2008] [ [http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMH-IRO-london_mosques.htm British Muslim Heritage – London’s Mosques] ]

The Woking Mosque and mission remained the pre-eminent centre of Islam in Great Britain from 1913 to the mid-1960s. [http://www.wokingmuslim.org/history/woking.htm Brief history of the Woking Muslim Mission] ]

Woking Mission

The "Woking Muslim Mission" was established by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din [ [http://www.wokingmuslim.org/pers/kk/index.htm About Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870–1932)] , [http://www.wokingmuslim.org/pers/kk-whos.htm Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din: Entry in Who’s Who] ] . His first stay in England was from September 1912 until August 1914. He established the Mission with the encouragment of Maulana Noor-ud-Din, Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement till March 1914. After the split in the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1914 Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din was associated with the "Lahore Branch".

Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din started his work from the inspiration of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who had a deep desire to present Islam to the West. In February 1913 the Khwaja started a monthly journal "The Islamic Review", which for over 55 years was the main Islamic journal in the West. [ [http://www.wokingmuslim.org/history/is-rev/founding.htm Founding of The Islamic Review, 1913] ]

At Eid occasions, from 1913 to the mid-1960s, Muslims from all nations present in England at the time gathered at the Woking Mosque. Woking in those days became a replica in miniature of Mecca in the West, a multinational spectacle that could be matched in its multitude only with Hajj in Mecca itself. [http://www.wokingmuslim.org/history/kh-mosque.htm The Mosque at Woking: A miniature of Mecca in the days of the Pilgrimage] ]

People converting to Islam in England during the years 1913 to the mid-1960s did so generally through this mission. In 1924 it was estimated that there was a total Muslim population in England of 10,000, of which 1,000 were converts. [http://www.shahjahanmosque.org.uk/02_03.html History of the Mosque] , page 3, viewed at July 15th, 2008]

The well-known book "Islam, Our Choice", containing accounts by Muslim converts of how they came to embrace Islam, was originally compiled and published by the Woking Muslim Mission. It has subsequently been re-published all over the wolrd by other Muslim publishers. But they have deleted the name of the Woking Muslim Mission and of Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din from within the accounts given by the converts.

References

See also

* Shah Jahan Mosque
* Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din

External links

* AAIIL: [http://www.wokingmuslim.org Woking Mosque and the Woking Muslim Mission]
* [http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMH-IRO-london_mosques.htm British Muslim Heritage – London’s Mosques]


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