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31 Japan, Syria, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Egypt, America, Italy, Australia, and Hungary participated. After an absence of 4 months he returned home with unique and tremendous success. The Fazl Mosque stands on a one acre site in London. This site was purchased for the sum of £2,223. Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra initiated the funding of the London Mosque on 7 February 1920, when he called upon the Jama’at to contribute towards the building of a mosque. The majority of the money needed was raised by the ladies of the Jama’at in India. Many of them sold their wedding jewellery and other precious items that they owned. This sacrifice was given even though the vast majority of these women knew that they would never be able to see the mosque that their donations were helping to build on for- eign soil. Yet their sheer devotion to the Jama’at made them sacrifice to the highest degree. The mosque was opened on 3 October 1926 by Sir Abdul Qadir. Quranic Wisdom Allah had granted Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra a deep knowledge and understanding of the Holy Quran. He had said that there were hundreds and thou- sands of truthful realities of the Holy Quran which Allah