Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 236
236 AHMADIYY AT attendance in the Annual Conferences of the Movement. In the last conference under Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I in 1913, the attendance was approximately three thousand. In the conference of 1964, the last one during the second Khilafat, the attendance was over seventy-five thousand. In the Annual Conference of the dissident group, the attendance seldom, if ever, exceeded two thousand and then began to decline progressively so that in 1976 the attendance did not reach even four hundred, of whom at least two hundred were members of the main Ahmadiyya Com- munity.