Project Brochure 2012 - 2013 · 2 AQS Project Brochure 2012-2013 Abdullah Quilliam Society 8-10...

Project Brochure 2012 - 2013

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The Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam Mosque and Heritage Centre

2 AQS Project Brochure 2012-2013

Abdullah Quilliam Society8-10 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, L6 1AE

Mobile: 07961427950 Email: [email protected]

The Abdullah Quilliam SocietyUK Charity Reg No: 1086228www.abdullahquilliam.com

Donate and save our HeritageThe AQS want to restore the original Mosque for use and its features. We wish to recreate a library, museum, lecture hall,

residences, school and college. We will create a visitor centre where Muslims and non-Muslims can come to see this historic site and learn about Islam and Muslim history in the UK and Europe.

Ways to Donate

Direct

Bank details are as follows:Account Name: Abdullah Quilliam SocietyBank: HSBC Bank Plc, 32 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 2TP.Account No: 01158945Sort Code: 40-29-28

IBAN: GB59MIDL40292801158945Branch Identifier: MIDLGB2139A

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ChequeAccount Name: Abdullah Quilliam SocietyAddress: Abdullah Quilliam Society8-10 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, L6 1AE

Standing Orderwww.abdullahquilliam.com

A Standing Order enables you to make regular donations to The Abdullah Quilliam Society. A standing order form can be obtained from our website

...Protect our HeritageDon’t Lose ItPreserve It...

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Foreword and AcknowledgementsGalib Khan

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Abdullah Quilliam Society ManagementTrustees and Management

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Background to Abdullah Quilliam SocietyThe Abdullah Quilliam Society (AQS) is a UK charity founded in 1998 by a small group of Liverpool Muslims, who became aware...

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Introduction to Abdullah QuilliamWilliam Henry Quilliam, a local Liverpool solicitor and resident embraced Islam in 1887 (aged 31), after returning from a visit to Morocco, and took on the name Abdullah...

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Historic Mosque and BuildingNumbers 8, 9 and 10 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool are buildings of historical significance. Built in 1830, they are part of the original building made up of 12 terraces and named after the then Lord Chancellor Henry Peter, the first Baron Brougham...

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Abdullah Quilliam Heritage Centre PlansThe AQS has exciting plans and projects that it wishes to carry out in the new Heritage Centre... Cost of Building Interior images of Mosque Exterior images of Mosque

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Plans & Drawings: Mosque/Heritage Centre Basement Plan First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan

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Artists Drawings: Mosque/Heritage Centre New Main Road Entrance View from Display area towards Cafe Islamic Courtyard Garden and Cafe Film and Lecture Theatre Shop and view to Display area Islamic Courtyard, Garden and Cafe Classroom Front-view: 8-10, 11-12 Brougham Terrace

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Supporting Letters Bishop of Liverpool Clarence House, London Duchy of Lancaster Lord Ahmed of Rotherham Liverpool City Council Muslim Association of Britain

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Contents

Background to AQS

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Introduction to Abdullah Quilliam

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Historical Mosque and Building

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Artists Drawings of Mosque

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Foreword and Acknowledgements

“The AQS and its founders have done their best, with limited resources, to keep the unique history of Abdullah Quilliam alive. We also managed to raise limited funds to make the historic first mosque and building secure and keep it in our possession.

Our patience over the years, when few knew or appreciated this history, has been rewarded with the publication of Professor Ron Geaves biography of Sheikh Quilliam that has revived interest.

I would like to thank all those supporters and volunteers who have helped us over the years. Over the last 18 months we have had a new team in place led by Jahangir Mohammed.

We have launched new projects and a major promotional campaign, which has put AQS and our proposed Heritage Centre in the spotlight and attracted new supporters and volunteers. But there is still a great deal of work to be done to renovate the Mosque and Create a Heritage Centre. We need everybody’s support to preserve this great British Heritage. I am confident our vision will one day become a reality.”

Galib KhanChair of Abdullah Quilliam Society

Acknowledgements

Brochure Team

Disclaimer

Publisher/EditorJahangir [email protected]

DesignerAfzal KadujiKad Design, 4 Rugby Road, Salford, Manchester, M6 [email protected]

We would like to thank all our donors, supporters, patrons and volunteers who have helped to keep this project alive all these years.

In particular we would like to thank Bishop James Jones, Liverpool Council, Lady Pilkington and the Duchy of Lancaster for their unwavering support to try to make this project a reality.

We are also grateful to those who have provided small grants and help in kind, such as Awards for All, MEDS, Pakistan Centre, Comtechsa, Communica, Kad Design and also overseas supporters like Prof. Dr. Salih al Samarrai.

All text and layout is the copyright of the publisher. Nothing in this brochure should be reproduced in whole or part without the written permission of the publisher.

What Is Life? by Abdullah Quilliam

“What is our Life?

A breath, a moan, a sigh,A laugh, a smile, a cry,A storm, a sob, a calm,

Tumult, some joy, some harm.

An earthly moment brief,That longs for some relief

And freedom from stern strife,Such, ever such, our life”

(21st July, 1907)

Kindliness by Abdullah Quilliam

“Your smiling good-naturedly in your brother’s face is charity.” Muhammad.

As fair as the morning, And as full of grace, Is the bright friendly smile, On a good-natured face.

As firm as a mountain, Deny it who can, Is the grasp of the hand, Of the good-hearted man.

As welcome as sunshine, True warmth to impart, Is the sweet kindly word From a good-natured heart.

As pure as the dew-drop, So tender, so dear, Is the sympathy shown By the good-natured tear.

(Woodland Towers, Isle of Man, 22nd October 1906)


Messages

Abdullah Quilliam Society Management

Charity Number No. 1086228

Bank DetailsHSBC Bank Plc, 32 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L1 2TP, UK.Sort Code: 40-29-28 Account No: 0115 8945 IBAN: GB59MIDL40292801158945 Branch Identifier: MIDLGB2139A

Charity TrusteesGalib Khan (Chair)Dr. Mohammed Akbar AliMohammed Siddique Seddon Sister Huda Mamoun Dr. Mohanned AhmadCapt. Mifta Osi Efa Dr. Abdul Hamid Farhad Ahmed (Secretary) Sister Souhila Serir Safraz Ali (Treasurer) Khalid Miller

ArchitectsComtechsa [email protected] Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 5AA, United KingdomTel: +44 (0)151 707 4300 Fax: +44 (0)151 707 4301

Project ManagementJahangir Mohammed, Chief Executive, Communica Consulting Suite 226, 792 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 6UG. Tel: 01617182417 Mobile 07961427950 Email: [email protected]

Authorised FundraisersJahangir Mohammed, Manchester, UK. Prof. Dr. Salih Mahdi Al Samarai, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Please note these are the only people outside the trustees, authorised to raise funds and act on behalf of the AQS. Any donations should always be made payable to the Abdullah Quilliam Society and not named individuals.

The Rt Revd James JonesThe Bishop of [email protected]

Message:“I am pleased to give my warm and wholehearted support to the development of the Abdullah Quilliam Heritage Centre. This is a very exciting and innovative project and I believe it can play a valuable part in promoting harmony and understanding between those of different faiths.

I believe that only as those of different faiths begin to speak and to work together can there be hope for peace in the world.”

Jahangir MohammedDirector of Abdullah Quilliam Heritage Centre

[email protected]

Message:“This great heritage belongs to all British people and all Muslims. Therefore our plans to refurbish the mosque and create a Heritage Centre as a visitor attraction are everybody’s projects. Equally our annual Sheikh Quilliam Memorial Lecture, our annual Awards celebration, and our archiving and history projects are important to all communities.

I would therefore invite everybody to come and join our Friends Scheme and help us make all our projects a reality.

Lets not lose this great heritage lets help preserve it!”

Abdullah Quilliam Society Information

“Kindness is the oil which causes the hinge of the gate of Paradise to open easily”(Passing Thought by Abdullah Quilliam)


Background to Abdullah Quilliam Society

The Abdullah Quilliam Society (AQS) is a UK registered charity founded in 1998 by a small group of Liverpool Muslims, including Akbar Ali, Galib Khan, Zia Choudri, Mrs. Abassi, Somaya and Rashid Macteer. They became aware of a unique heritage of Islam in Victorian Britain, in the city of Liverpool. This history was located in the Liverpool City Council registry office for births, deaths and marriages. This building was once the site of the historic first UK Mosque, Muslim community Institutions and Dawah activities of Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam from 1889-1908. Staff at the registry office would often refer to the room where all the files of births, deaths and marriages were stored as “the little Mosque” without realising the significance or history behind it. So by an amazing coincidence of history, almost every Liverpool resident for a decade has visited this historic building and many have had their marriage ceremony performed in it.

AQS first objective is to obtain possession of the building and restore it back to the original historic mosque. In the year 2000 Liverpool City Council vacated the property and handed it to the AQS and Muslim community to look after and develop. It was handed over in poor condition and in need of renovation. Once the AQS has funds to renovate the building, Liverpool Council will transfer ownership to the Society.

Over the years AQS has given numerous talks on this important history and hosted many visitors and media. The Society has now completely renovated the roof, which was decaying and leaking. The Mosque and remainder of the building still need

renovation. The Society has kept this unique history alive through many talks, visits and media interviews. It has also encouraged people to further research this heritage. Last year, a new book was published, “Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam” by Professor Ron Geaves. This book gives a unique insight into the building, the life of Sheikh Quilliam and the first established Muslim Community in Britain.

The Society has exciting plans to renovate the building and re-create the first Institutions of Islam in Britain. It also has exciting plans to further research, exhibit and bring to life the stories of the 600 first native Britons to embrace Islam. Our plans to recreate this building and history are important to Muslims in Europe, America, Japan, and the Muslim world.

You can contact the Abdullah Quilliam Society at:[email protected]

Plaque at Historic Mosque

AQS Launch Project

Building work at Mosque


Introduction to Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam

William Henry Quilliam, a local Liverpool solicitor and resident embraced Islam in 1887 (aged 31), after returning from a visit to Morocco, and took on the name Abdullah. He claimed that he was the first native Englishman to embrace Islam. His conversion led to a remarkable story of the growth of Islam in Victorian Britain. This history is now beginning to emerge and has important lessons for Muslims in Britain and around the world.

After embracing Islam, Quilliam began a campaign of Dawah, which in the circumstances of Victorian England, has to be described as the most effective in the UK to date. He became an Alim, an Imam and the most passionate advocate of Islam in the Western world. In 1894 Sultan Abdul Hamid ll, the last Ottoman Caliph, appointed him Sheikh-ul-Islam of the British Isles.

The Emir of Afghanistan recognised him as the Sheikh of Muslims in Britain. He was also appointed as the Persian Vice Counsel to Liverpool by the Shah. He became a prominent spokesman for Islam in the media and was recognised by Muslims around the world. He is the only Muslim in Britain to have officially held the position of Sheikh Ul Islam of Britain. He issued many Fatwas in his capacity as appointed Leader of Muslims in Britain. These fatwas are relevant even today.

He established the Mosque and Liverpool Muslim Institute at No. 8 Brougham Terrace and later purchased the remainder of the terrace, and opened a boarding school for boys and a day school for girls. He also opened an orphanage (Medina House) for non-Muslim children whose parents could not look after them, and agreed to for them to be raised in the values of Islam. In addition, the Institute operated educational classes covering a wide range of subjects that were attended by both Muslims and non-Muslims, and included a museum and science laboratory.

In 1893 the Institute published a weekly magazine, named ‘The Crescent’, and later added the monthly ‘Islamic World’, which was printed on the Institute’s own press and distributed to over 20 countries. The Crescent was published every week from 1893-1908 (nearly 800 editions), and was effectively a dairy and record of Islam in Britain and around the world. There are hundreds of archive copies of these magazines in the British Library. Without this unique weekly record we would not know of the existence of this native Muslim community of around 200 people in Liverpool, and many

other parts of Britain. These offer the first attempt at Muslim journalism in the UK and offer a unique insight into a British Muslims view of events and issues in Liverpool, the UK and the Muslim world, at a crucial period of Muslims living under colonial rule.

He also wrote and published a number of books. In particular his “Faith of Islam” had three editions translated into thirteen different languages, and was so popular that Queen Victoria ordered a copy and then re-ordered copies for her children. The Institute grew, and at the turn of the century held a membership of 200 predominantly English Muslim men, women and children from across the local community. Quilliam’s dawah led to around 600 people in the UK embracing Islam, many of them very educated and prominent individuals in British Society, as well as ordinary men and women. His efforts also led to the first Japanese man embracing Islam.

Quilliam eventually had to leave England after facing hostility and persecution, the first Muslim experience of “Islamophobia” in the UK. He eventually returned to the UK and adopted the name Haroun Mustapha Leon, and passed away in 1932 near Woking, and was buried in Brookfield Cemetery where Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and Lord Headly are also buried.

More information about Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam can be found at:www.abdullahquilliam.com

William Henry Quilliam

Interior of Historic Mosque

Front cover of a Crescent publication


Historic Mosque and Building

Numbers 8, 9 and 10 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool are buildings of historical significance. Built in 1830, they are part of the original building made up of 12 terraces and named after the then Lord Chancellor Henry Peter, the first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

Numbers 8, 9, and 10 subsequently took on a very interesting history, which is important to modern Liverpool, Britain and Muslims around the world. These properties became the first site of Islamic worship and Mosque in the UK. It was the first mosque built by a native Englishman. The buildings are also important because they were the Office of the first and only appointed Sheikh ul Islam of the British Isles. Islamic rites such as deaths, marriages, Friday and Eid prayers were performed at the centre, and Fatwas were delivered by Quilliam for Muslims on important issues.

An article in ‘The Religious Review of Reviews’ dated at the end of the 19th Century described Brougham Terrace as follows:-“The Institute occupies a large old-fashioned house situated in Brougham terrace, and facing West Derby road, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Liverpool. Outside the house is a large notice-board, headed with the well-known sentence, There is only one God and Mahomet is His prophet and then follows the announcement of times when services are held. The interior of the premises has been fitted up as a Mahomedan Institute, and the various apartments are arranged as a library and reading-room, a museum, a small lecture-hall, and a chess and draughts room; while one portion is set apart for the residences of the caretakers. At the rear of the building, in what was formerly the garden, is erected the ‘pro-Mosque’, a plain building, capable of accommodating from 150 to 200 worshippers.”

It was from the top balcony at the front of this Georgian terrace that Quilliam and the Muslims would stand and call the Azaan. This call to prayer would echo into the heart of 19th century Liverpool.

The Mosque style and design was a mixture of Arabic, Moorish and Ottoman. The remainder of the building has Georgian features, which have to be preserved as the building is listed.

Historic Mosque AQS Projects

The AQS has exciting plans and projects that it wishes to carry out in the new Heritage Centre. The AQS want to restore the original Mosque for use and restore its features. We wish to recreate the library, museum, lecture hall, residences, school and college. We will create a visitor centre where Muslims and non-Muslims can come to see this historic site and learn about Islam and Muslim history in the UK and Europe. There will be a museum and exhibitions on Quilliam and his fellow Muslims. There will be lectures, seminars and conferences with a chance to learn about Islam for non-Muslims.

We will also carry out further research and prepare archives on British and European Muslim history. The building next door could be purchased and used as and extension to the Mosque, and as an Islamic School/College and conference centre. It may be used for, marriage ceremonies and special events and as a support centre for new Muslims. A full list of projects, is listed below:

Mosque and Building Project

Acquire Building

Refurbish Building

Restore features of mosque and rooms

Build Café and Islamic gardens

Purchase & refurbish building next door

Establish larger Prayer hall in new building

Heritage and Visitor Project

Establish Quilliam Exhibition Room

Establish Museum Rooms for History of

Islam and Muslims in UK

Organise Tours and visits to Mosque and

Centre

Arrange visits for non-Muslim and Muslim

schools

Research and Archive Project

Further research into Abdullah Quilliam Research into 600 Reverts to Islam in UK, their life and works Documenting and archiving of historical materials, (Crescent, The Islamic World, poetry and other writings) Training on heritage, archiving and history Develop and preserve Islamic identity and heritage

Library Project

Create library and Reading Room Preserve and digitize old manuscripts, photos, documents on Islam in UK Establish library of old books on Islam in UK Hold books and Information for all who want to learn about Islam Establish digital resource room for research

Community Engagement Project

Abdullah Quilliam annual lecture Abdullah Quilliam annual awards Lectures, debates and seminars on Islam

and Islamic history Produce materials on Islam for Schools

and the media New Interactive website Resources for all Liverpool residents to

increase understanding of Islam Advance co-operation between Muslims

and non-Muslims

New Muslims Project

Become a centre for supporting new Muslims in the North of England Provide support for new Muslims and their families Produce free information packs Short courses on Islam for new Muslim Introductory courses on Islam for non-Muslims who are interested Put useful information on website


The Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam Heritage Centre Plans

Cost of Building

The costs below are for capital only and refurbishment; we have not included revenue costs for establishing and delivery of projects. The revenue project costs for three years are estimated at £600,000 for the first three years. After three years it is hoped that the project will be self-sustainable.

Cost Summary for Mosque & Heritage Centre Numbers 8,9,10 Brougham Terrace

Element Cost (£)

Conversion and Refurbishment Costs for 8, 9 and 10 Brougham Terrace (including 10% contingency)

1,795,100

Associated costs, including for example professional fees, project development & publicity and furniture and fitting

251,300

VAT (assumes that the building works will be standard rated for VAT purposes, and that some works related to Disabled Access may be zero for VAT purposes)

409,300

Total 2,469,200

Cost of Islamic School/College 11,12 Brougham Terrace if purchased

Element Cost (£)

Purchase Costs including legal and professional fees and stamp duty

800,000

Conversion and Refurbishment Costs for 11-12 Brougham Terrace

1,200,000

Total 2,000,000

You can find more images of the Mosque at:www.abdullahquilliam.com/wp/gallery

Interior Images Exterior Images


Plans and Drawings of Mosque and Heritage Centre

Basement



First Floor


Second Floor Third Floor




Ground Floor


Artists Drawings

New Main Road Entrance

Islamic Courtyard Garden and Cafe


Artists Drawings

View from display area towards Cafe

Film and Lecture Theatre


Artists Drawings

Shop and view to Display Area

Classroom


Artists Drawings

Islamic Courtyard, Garden and Cafe

Front View: 11-12 Brougham Terrace currently for sale 8-10 with AQS

11-12 Brougham Terrace, West Derby Road, Liverpool - proposed New Islamic School/College and additional Prayer space (Could be purchased)

8-10 Brougham Terrace, West Derby Road, Liverpool. Abdullah Quilliam Mosque and Heritage Centre, established 1889 - First Mosque in UK (In AQS possession already)


Letters of Support


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