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Step back in time to discover the origins of London’s first purpose-built mosque. In this opening episode of our two-part audio documentary, we journey from the early 1913 mission at Speakers’ Corner to the historic foundation and opening of the Fazl Mosque in 1926—built through the extraordinary sacrifices of Ahmadi women across the world.
Explore the mosque’s remarkable interwar legacy: as a beacon for literary figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the backdrop for Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s historic 1933 return to politics, an air-raid sanctuary during the WWII Blitz, and the spiritual home of Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam and Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan (ra).
The episode culminates in the dramatic events of April 1984, when state-sponsored persecution in Pakistan led to the migration of Khilafat to London, forever altering the course of Ahmadiyya history and transforming a quiet suburban mosque into the global headquarters of a worldwide faith.
