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Aqsa Mosque, Qadian
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] HistoryThe 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[update], the capacity of the building has increased to 15,000 worshippers, from its initial capacity of 200.[6] See alsoReferences
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