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A philanthropic body under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1832. Built workhouses, housing, schools and hospitals, including the famous...
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Built by the Quilliam Family, four generations lived in this house from the 1870s to the 1950s. Includes some biographical...
8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...
This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...
The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....
The Mosque was first founded in 1953 by the late Al-Haj Ali Hizzam, a house transformed into a mosque, Masjid...
Located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London Mosque is a part of the London Muslim Centre and...
Located on the edge of Regent’s Park, the London Central Mosque, the land for the mosque was presented as a...
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...
This is a Grade I listed building whose interior is built in an exuberant Orientalist style, a mix of Moorish,...
Bradford's oldest mosque was established by the Pakistani Muslim Association in 1958 at 30 Howard Street. It sits a row...
Robert Stanley led the project to build the Victoria Market Hall, just three years after he had been elected as...
After getting married to Emma Meredith at the age of 19, Robert set up a grocers and tea shop with...
Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...
This masjid was established by Pir Maroof Hussain, a local spiritual leader who acknowledged the need for a place of...
Located in Southfields, London near King George's Park and Southfields train station, the Fazl Mosque, also known as the London...
'The East London Mosque Trust has rich a history spanning more than a century. It is London’s oldest Mosque, serving...
The grandiose building, which was finished in 1843, began life as the Lancashire Independent College, which belonged to the Congregational...
Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) was the ruler of Mysore, an independent state in southern India. With his father, he was...
104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....
Caxton Hall is a location in which many momentous events occurred, including the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the campaign...
The history of Bangladesh's independence can be traced to the 1947 Partition of British India, and to the history of...
The National Liberal Club (NLC) was established by William Gladstone in 1882, to provide club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners. ...
The Royal Pavilion, also known as the Brighton Pavilion, is a historic Grade I listed former royal residence situated in...
Jamal's Tandoori Restaurant has been a significant place of networking for Muslims across the city. During the 1950s and 1960s,...
Al Shami restaurant was the site of Oxford's first halal butchers, and was established in the 1960s. Prior to its...
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Caxton Hall
Caxton Hall is a location in which many momentous events occurred, including the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the campaign for women's suffrage, and the inaugural meeting of the Muslim League party. Some of the first Jummah prayers were organised at Caxton Hall in 1908 by the actor and writer Duse Mohamed Ali.
Caxton Hall was the location of meetings of the British Cabinet Mission, which had been sent to India to find a solution to the political crises. The meetings were held between May and June 1946 and were important in negotiations between the Indian National Congress and Muslim League. The failure of the Cabinet Mission Plan led to the creation of two separate nations.
Indian Revolutionary Udham Singh assassinated the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in Caxton Hall to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. When arrested, he said that he’d only meant to protest, not to kill anyone. ‘I just shot to make protest. I have seen people starving In India under British Imperialism. I done it, the pistol went off three or four times. I am not sorry for protesting.’
Singh was tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940. Interestingly, while in custody, he adopted the name “Ram Muhammad Singh Azad” and signed many letters with this name. This title combines a Hindu, Muslim and Sikh name and ends with the Indian word for Freedom (Azad). The adoption of this name in itself was a powerful symbol of religious unity in opposition to British Rule. It depicts the shared struggles of Indians, regardless of religion and creed, against the British. This alias also depicts his deep anti-colonial sentiments and his desire to free India from imperialism.
The Times of London called him a "fighter for freedom", his actions "an expression of the pent-up fury of the downtrodden Indian people."
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Article by Mazna Khan
https://www.everydaymuslim.org/projects/remembering-partition/
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