ABSTRACT
Place-making through mosque building, and how this facilitates the establishment of a British Ahmadi identity, is explored through a study of two London Ahmadi mosques. The first Ahmadi mosque was built in the 1920s while the second mosque discussed in this chapter opened its doors to the community almost a century later in 2003. The different histories of the mosques together with the attempts by local non-Muslims to prevent the granting of planning permission and the additional attempts by non-Ahmadi Muslims to attempt to classify the mosques as non-Muslim are examined through planning applications and media campaigns.
