Fazl Mosque, London

Fazl Mosque
Fazl Mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Branch/tradition	Ahmadiyya
Leadership	Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Location
Location	London, England
Geographic coordinates	51°27′04″N 00°12′27″W / 51.45111°N 0.20750°W
Architecture
Architect(s)	Thomas Mawson
Type	Mosque
Style	Indo-Saracenic architecture mughal architecture
Completed	1926
Specifications
Dome(s)	1
Minaret(s)	0
Website
	thelondonmosque.com

The Fazl Mosque (English: The Grace Mosque) also known as The London Mosque, is the first purpose-built mosque in London, England. It was opened on 23 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth. At a cost of £6,223, the construction of the mosque and the purchase of the land on which it stands, was financed by the donations of Ahmadi Muslim women in Qadian, Punjab, British India,^[1]^[2] with support from the British Muslim convert Khalid Sheldrake.^[3] Between 1984 and 2019 the Fazl Mosque was the residence of the caliphs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and therefore its de facto international headquarters. The administrative headquarters now lies at the site of the Islamabad, Tilford.^[4]

^ Marzia Balzani.'An ethnographer among the Ahmadis: Learning Islam in the suburbs' in Gabriele Marranci (ed.) Studying Islam in Practice. Routledge, 2014, p.111.
^ B. A. Jacobsen et al.'The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries' in J. R. Lewis & I. B. Tøllefsen (eds.) Handbook of Nordic New Religions. Brill, 2015, p.367.
^ French, Paul (2 March 2019). "The last king of Xinjiang: how Bertram Sheldrake went from condiment heir to Muslim monarch". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
^ "Head Of Ahmadiyya Community Opens New Central Mosque In Islamabad, Tilford, UK". Press & Media Office. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.

[1] Marzia Balzani.'An ethnographer among the Ahmadis: Learning Islam in the suburbs' in Gabriele Marranci (ed.) Studying Islam in Practice. Routledge, 2014, p.111.

[2] B. A. Jacobsen et al.'The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries' in J. R. Lewis & I. B. Tøllefsen (eds.) Handbook of Nordic New Religions. Brill, 2015, p.367.

[3] French, Paul (2 March 2019). "The last king of Xinjiang: how Bertram Sheldrake went from condiment heir to Muslim monarch". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

[4] "Head Of Ahmadiyya Community Opens New Central Mosque In Islamabad, Tilford, UK". Press & Media Office. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.

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