The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Masjid Aqsa (Urdu: مسجدِ اقصیٰ), is a mosque affiliated with the Ahmadiyya movement, located in Qadian, in the Gurdaspur district of the state of Punjab, India. The 19th-century mosque is the largest and oldest mosque in Qadian, and is situated inside the compound of the ancestrial house of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, close to the White Minaret, and located in the Ahmadiyya Mohallah of Qadian.[3]
History
The mosque was built in 1876 by Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement.[4] In January 1938, a loudspeaker was installed in Aqsa Mosque for the first time. At that time, the second caliph, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, gave a sermon on this.[5]
Throughout the 20th century, the mosque was renovated and repeatedly extended by the Ahmadiyya administration and, as of 2014, the capacity of the building has increased to 15,000 worshippers, from its initial capacity of 200.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Building of Mosques Worldwide an Ahmadiyya Priority". alislam.org.
- ^ "Construction of Minara-tul-Masih Qadian". alislam.org. 20 February 2000.
- ^ "Aqsa Mosque - Birth Place of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad". Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ Roose, Eric (2009). The Architectural Representation of Islam: Muslim-commissioned Mosque Design in the Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-8964-133-5.
- ^ Hakam, Al (7 January 2022). "This Week in History: 7-13 January". www.alhakam.org. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
- ^ "Eid Celebrations". Archived from the original on 21 July 2015.
External links
Media related to Aqsa Mosque, Qadian at Wikimedia Commons
