Al-Sadiq Mosque
Encyclopedia
The Al Sadiq Mosque was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of Chicago. This mosque
was funded with the money donated by African-American converts and Ahmadis in India
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. Muhammad Sadiq started a monthly magazine called “The Moslem Sunrise”, which contained articles on Islam, contemporary issues of conscience and the names of new converts. This magazine still exists. Muhammad Sadiq attracted a substantial number of converts in his short stay in America, most notably in Detroit and Chicago between 1922 and 1923.
The Ahmadiyya Movement continued to grow and established more than 40 missions through America. Four Ahmadi mosques can be found in the region today, two predominantly African-American, two predominantly Indo-Pakistani. Chicago served as the movement's national headquarters until 1950. When it were moved to American Fazl Mosque in Washington, D.C..
Mosque
A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...
was funded with the money donated by African-American converts and Ahmadis in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Chicago Muslim Mission
Mufti Muhammad Sadiq arrived in America on February 15, 1920 and established 1921 the Headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim CommunityAhmadiyya
Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious revivalist movement founded in India near the end of the 19th century, originating with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , who claimed to have fulfilled the prophecies about the world reformer of the end times, who was to herald the Eschaton as...
. Muhammad Sadiq started a monthly magazine called “The Moslem Sunrise”, which contained articles on Islam, contemporary issues of conscience and the names of new converts. This magazine still exists. Muhammad Sadiq attracted a substantial number of converts in his short stay in America, most notably in Detroit and Chicago between 1922 and 1923.
The Ahmadiyya Movement continued to grow and established more than 40 missions through America. Four Ahmadi mosques can be found in the region today, two predominantly African-American, two predominantly Indo-Pakistani. Chicago served as the movement's national headquarters until 1950. When it were moved to American Fazl Mosque in Washington, D.C..
Literature
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around the World – A Pictorial Presentation (Khilafat Centenary Edition) by the USA Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, ISBN 1-882494-51-2, pg. 291
- Al-Nahl Special Issue on Dr. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq'