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Lahore Ahmadiyya International Convention, England
16–18 August 2019

An International Convention of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement was held in England from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th August 2019. The public session, at which several researchers and speakers from outside the Movement gave addresses, was held at Woking, Surrey, on the 17th.

Further details of the public session will be published in due course.

Here we give a link to a booklet specially written for this occasion:

Pioneers of Introducing Islam to the West — The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore

Public session at H.G. Wells Conference and Events Centre, Woking, Surrey, 17th August,
— in photos

This session was held at the above Centre in Woking because it was from the Mosque at Woking that the Lahore Ahmadiyya missionaries conducted the famous Woking Muslim Mission from 1913 to 1968.

External speakers gave talks on the subject of the role of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in the propagation of Islam in various countries.

Photos of the speakers giving their talks in order

Dr Jawad Ahmad, member of the UK Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, introducing the morning session	Mr Hamad Ahmad, member of the UK Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, opening with a recitation from the Holy Quran
Mr Azhar-ud-Din Ahmad, member of the UK Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, speaking about the work to renovate the historical Muslim graves at Brookwood cemetery, and guided history tours and marked walks of this section	Professor Humayun Ansari, O.B.E., of the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, on the role of the Woking Muslim Mission in the history of Muslims in the UK
Mrs Fauqia Aziz makes intervention to express deep appreciation for Prof. Ansari’s speech	Mayor of Runnymede for 2019-20, Councillor Parshotam Sohi, speaking as elected local area public representative
Hazrat Ameer Dr A.K. Saeed, international head of the Lahore Ahmadiyya, giving speech	Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim Educational Centre Oxford, scholar of history of Islam, speaking on the influence of the Lahore Ahmadiyya on the Muslims community in South Africa
Shahid Aziz, President of the UK Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, concluding the morning session	Mustaq Ali, Secretary of the UK Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, introducing the afternoon session
Dr Virk Seth, consultant physician, speaking as a Deputy Lieutenant, on behalf of the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey (the Lord-Lieutenant of a county is the personal representative of the Queen)	Dr Zsolt Udvarvölgyi, historian and sociologist, and associate professor, Budapest, Hungary, speaking on the Ahmadiyya role in Hungary
Dr Patrick Bowen, academic scholar of Islam and religious conversion, speaking on the Ahmadiyya influence in the USA	Dr Robbert Bipat, President of SIV of Suriname (Lahore Ahmadiyya organization), on the history of the Jamaat in his country
Amir Aziz, Imam of the Berlin Mosque, Germany, on the history of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Mosque in Berlin, built 1927	Sohaila Omardeen, Trinidad & Tobago, speaking on the history of the Lahore Ahmadiyya in Trinidad
Declan Henry, author of ‘Voices of Modern Islam’, sitting in the audience. He spoke about his research into the views of different sections of the Muslim community of the UK and how see the Lahore Ahmadiyya	Dr Zahid Aziz (Webmaster of this website) speaking on the Woking Muslim Mission as a story of inspiration and sacrifice