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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....
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (5 January 1865-29 October 1900) was probably the first woman to convert to Islam in Merseyside, who...
This was the residence of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), as listed in the 1891 Census, among the first women to...
This was the site of the first Muslim prayer hall in the UK, which was formally established as the Liverpool...
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900) lived at "Granada", Victoria Road, in the town of West Kirby on the western side of...
The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...
The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...
This is a Grade I listed building whose interior is built in an exuberant Orientalist style, a mix of Moorish,...
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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...
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Stalybridge Town Hall was built in 1831. It saw two additional extensions during the Victorian period and was one of...
Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...
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Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) was the ruler of Mysore, an independent state in southern India. With his father, he was...
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....
Halimo Abdi Betal (1878-1904) is probably the first Muslim to have been buried in Bradford; she died at the young...
In 1904, the great Bradford Exhibition was held in Lister Park. It was held to inaugurate the newly-built Cartwright Hall,...
In late April 1895, a group of sixty-six Somalis arrived at the Tilbury Docks aboard the Clan Ross. They came...
1902
West Derby Union/Quilliam Village
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A philanthropic body under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1832. Built workhouses, housing, schools and hospitals, including the famous Alder Hay Hospital. John Houlding (1833-1902), an old friend and colleague of Abdullah Quilliam's, was part of this body for over 30 years. Houlding chaired it twice. From a poor rural background himself, Houlding made it big in the drinks trade, owning a brewery and a string of 10 pubs. He was well-known for his generosity, giving free dinners for the poor, and was known as "King John". Twenty years Quilliam's senior in age, Houlding may have acted as a role model to Quilliam in his philanthropic activities.
Houlding and Quilliam worked together during the early 1880s as political activists in the local Tory Party and in the 1890s they worked closely in leading the Carter's Union, a major trade union in Merseyside. Houlding's political career took off, serving as local councilor (or "alderman" as the post was called then) and later as Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1897. In 1898, Houlding visited Britain's first mosque and was the first civic official to do so. In his historic address at the mosque, Houlding talked about the importance of religious tolerance.
Houlding is best known today as the founder of Liverpool Football Club. He believed the promotion of sport was essential for the welfare of working people. It is not widely known that while on a journey to the East, Quilliam got Houlding an introduction to the Ottoman court. As a result, Houlding was awarded the Order of the Imtiaz by the Ottoman caliph Abdulhamid II for services to the empire. Not many people know there is a connection between Liverpool FC and the caliphate!
Originally housed in 1-7 Brougham Terrace, the West Derby Union rebuilt in 1902 in its current form while the Liverpool Muslim Institute, England's first mosque, operated next door at 8-12 Brougham Terrace. Now that the West Derby Union has been taken over by the Abdullah Quilliam Society as part of its expansion and development of its "Quilliam Village" project.
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Yahya Birt, "The Quilliams, Popular Conservatism and the New Trade Unionism in Liverpool", Islamic Review (Special Issue), ed. Tharik Hussain, pp.28-33, 61, http://www.abdullahquilliam.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Yahya-Birt-The-Quilliams-Popular-Conservatism.pdf (accessed 1 Nov 2022)
Yahya Birt, "The Surprising Connection between Quilliam, the Reds and the Blues", AQS Ramadan Guide 2018/1439 (Liverpool: Abdullah Quilliam Society, 2018), p.28. http://www.abdullahquilliam.org/pdfs/AQS-Ramadan-Guide-2018-online.pdf (accessed 1 Nov 2022)
Abdullah Quilliam Society, "AQS Expansion Project 2021 & TV Appeal", Abdullah Quilliam Society, 15 March 2021, http://www.abdullahquilliam.org/aqs-expansion-project-2021/ (accessed 1 Nov 2022)
"The West Derby Union, Brougham Terrace" (1925), Marie Evans Picture Library, https://www.prints-online.com/west-derby-union-liverpool-office-8200549.html (accessed 1 Nov 2022)
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