Aqsa Mosque, Qadian

31°49′8″N 75°22′44″E / 31.81889°N 75.37889°E / 31.81889; 75.37889ArchitectureTypemosqueStylePersian architectureCompleted1876^[1]SpecificationsCapacity15,000Dome(s)5Minaret(s)1 large, 8 small minaretsMinaret height105 feet^[2]Websitewww.ahmadiyyamuslimjamaat.in/

The Aqsa Mosque (or Masjid Aqsa; Urdu: مسجدِ اقصیٰ) is the largest and oldest mosque of Qadian, India. It 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 by Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, in 1876.^[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]

The mosque had been renovated and extended repeatedly throughout the 20th century by the Ahmadiyya administration and the capacity of the building increased from its initial capacity of 200 to 15,000 by the year 2014.^[6]

References

^ "Building of Mosques Worldwide an Ahmadiyya Priority".
^ "Construction of Minara-tul-Masih Qadian". 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.