8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...

The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....

Fatima Elizabeth Cates (5 January 1865-29 October 1900) was probably the first woman to convert to Islam in Merseyside, who...

The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...

The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...

One nineteenth century couple are an early example of an intercultural Muslim marriage. They were Ali and Amy Mokaiesh who...

Mustapha Karsa (pictured circa 1900) was born in Damascus in around 1848 to a wealthy landowning family. In 1880-1, Karsa...

Abdullah Ydlibi [Idlibi] (c.1820-85) came from a family of Arab notables in administration, politics and trade, with branches in Damascus...

Robert Stanley led the project to build the Victoria Market Hall, just three years after he had been elected as...

Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...

Yahya Parkinson (1874-1918), Scottish Muslim poet, essayist, and critic, was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, of Irish descent. Born John...

104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....

Islam in Victorian Liverpool is a unique eyewitness account dating from 1895 of Britain's first mosque community by an Ottoman...