Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 250
- - - 250 AHMADIYY AT Syed Ameer Ali and those associated with him in the project of the Mosque agreed to the suggestion of Khawaja Sahib and a formal deed of trust was drawn up and executed in the spring of 1913 wherel?y the management of the Mosque and Memorial House was vested in Khawaja Sahib. Khawaja Sahib thereupon transferred his residence from London to the Memorial House. As his work and responsibilities expanded he requested Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I that someone might be sent over to assist him in his work. In response to his request the Khalifatul Masih arranged to send Chandhri Fateh Muhammad Syal M. A. to England to assist Khawaja Sahib in his work. On the death ofHazrat Khalifatul Masih I, Chandhri Fateh Muhammed Syal swore allegiance to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, who directed him to move to London and start the first Ahmadiyya Mission in England. Some years later the house and grounds at 63 Melrose Road, London S. W. 18, were acquired as the headquarters of the Mission and it was decided to build a Mosque in a part of the garden of 63 Melrose Road. A great Imperial Exhibition was held at W embley, a few miles out of London, ~n 1924. It was expected that it would attract visitors from all parts of the British Empire and a few public-spirited persons, who took an interest in comparative religion, thought that it would be a good opportunity to hold a conference of the "principal religions of the Empire to which representatives of those religions might be invited to deliver addresses expounding the principles and teachings of their respective faiths. For some reason, not disclosed, no one was invited to participate in the conference on behalf of Christianity. It might well have been that the authorities of the Anglican and Catholic Churches considered it somewhat below their standing to participate in a conference of the representatives of faiths which at that time were not recog- nized by these two Churches as falling within their definition of religion. Maulvi Abdur Rahim Nayyar Sahib was at that time in