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...received a cutting from your esteemed paper dealing with the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the proposed Nizamiah Mosque in London, by H. H. the Prince of Berar on June 4 [TIME, June...
...design of the Mosque was prepared by Sir Brumwell Thomas, yet that is not the design which is to be adopted when the building of the Mosque commences. Apart from other things, that design was much too ambitious and expensive for the funds at the disposal of the Nizamiah Mosque Trust and has had to be given up. The present Board of Trustees has requested an Engineer in the service of the Hyderabad State in India to prepare a new design, with due regard to the resources available to the Trust, and he is now preparing it. On the receipt...
Board of Trustees Nizamiah Mosque London, England...
Lord Headley died at 80 two years ago. From London last week came word of a ceremony he would have enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present...
With the possible exception of the mosque in Paris, which charges five francs entrance fee and contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore...
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