Shah Jahan mosque, Woking - wikipedia Shah Jahan mosque, Woking For Mughal era mosque in Pakistan, see Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta. Shah Jahan Mosque Basic information Location Oriental Road, Woking, England Geographic coordinates 51 ° 19 ′ 18.5 '' N 0 ° 32 ′ 51 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.321806 ° N 0.54750 ° W ﻿ / 51.321806 ; - 0.54750 Coordinates : 51 ° 19 ′ 18.5 '' N 0 ° 32 ′ 51 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.321806 ° N 0.54750 ° W ﻿ / 51.321806 ; - 0.54750 Affiliation Sunni Islam Country United Kingdom Website shahjahanmosque.org.uk Architectural description Architect ( s ) W.I. Chambers Architectural type Mosque Architectural style Indo - Saracenic Revival Completed 1889 ( 1889 ) Specifications Dome ( s ) Minaret ( s ) 0 ( 2 miniature ) The Shah Jahan Mosque ( also known as Woking Mosque ) in Oriental Road, Woking, England, is the first purpose - built mosque in the United Kingdom. Built in 1889, it is located 30 miles ( 50 km ) southwest of London. Contents 1 Construction 2 History 2.1 Ahmadiyya period 2.2 Sunni period 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Construction The dome of Shah Jahan in 1945 Drawing by W.I. Chambers, in The Building News and Engineering Journal, 2 August 1889 The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in 1889 by Hungarian - British Jew and orientalist Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. It was partly funded by Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal, as a place for students at the Oriental Institute in Woking to worship at. The mosque was designed by architect William Isaac Chambers ( 1847 -- 1924 ) and built in Bath and Bargate stone. It was designed in an Indo - Saracenic Revival style, and has a dome, minarets, and a courtyard. The architecture was described by Pevsner Architectural Guides as `` extraordinarily dignified ''. The Oriental Institute, for the students of which the mosque was constructed, was founded by Leitner in 1881. He had purchased the former Royal Dramatic College building in Woking and established the Institute in order to promote oriental literature. It awarded degrees from the University of the Punjab in Lahore, India. History The mosque became the first formal place of Islamic worship in England. Queen Victoria 's Indian servants and her Indian secretary, Abdul Karim, used the mosque when the Queen visited Windsor Castle. A small number of dignitaries, students, and guests used the mosque until Leitner 's death in 1899, following which the mosque closed in 1889. Ahmadiyya period The mosque fell into disuse between Leitner 's death and 1912. Khwaja Kamal - ud - Din, a prominent Kashmiri lawyer and founder of the Woking Muslim Mission, worked to repair and revive the mosque. Leitner 's son wanted to sell the land to property developers so Khwaja took him to court on the grounds that the Mosque was consecrated ground just like a church and therefore deserved the same rights and property limitations. He won and after purchasing the grounds from Leitner 's son for a small price he was able to re-open the Mosque in 1913. It attracted royal visitors and famous British converts, such as Lord Headley and Marmaduke Pickthall. The mosque became a centre of Islam in the UK. During the First World War, the incumbent imam, Sadr - Ud - Din, petitioned the UK government to grant nearby land to the mosque as a burial ground for Indian Muslim soldiers. By 1917, this burial ground had been constructed and received the bodies of 19 soldiers from the hospital for Indian soldiers at Brighton Pavilion. Until the arrival of Pakistani immigrants in the UK in the 1960s, the Shah Jahan Mosque was the centre of Islam in Britain. It was from the mosque that The Islamic Review was published, as well as Maulana Muhammad Ali 's - a follower of the Ahmadiyya movement - popular English translations of the Quran. It has also been claimed as the location at which the name ' Pakistan ' was coined. Among those that visited the mosque in this time were Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Haile Selassie, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Aga Khan III, and Tunku Abdul Rahman. Sunni period By the 1960s, the influence of the mosque had declined and was seen more as a local mosque than vital to the practice of Islam in the UK. In the 1970s, it transferred into Sunni hands and was revived as an important place of worship in the community. The mosque was badly damaged in June 2016 after floods swamped homes in the surrounding area. See also Woking Muslim Mission Khwaja Kamal - ud - Din Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common References ^ Jump up to : `` Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking ''. Exploring Surrey 's Past. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` Shah Jahan Mosque ''. Woking Borough Council. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` History of the Mosque - Part 2 Shah Jahan Mosque ''. www.shahjahanmosque.org.uk. Retrieved 2017 - 02 - 22. Jump up ^ Glancey, Jonathan ( 17 June 2002 ). `` The ideal dome show ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` The History of the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking ''. Islam in British Stone. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` History of the Mosque - Part 3 ''. Shah Jahan Mosque. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` Woking 's Shah Jahan Mosque damaged in flooding ''. getSurrey. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking. Website : Shah Jahan Mosque AAIIL : Woking Mosque and the Woking Muslim Mission BBC : Forty Eight Hours -- Tour : Woking Mosque ( Photo of the Mosque in the 1900s ) British Muslim Heritage -- London 's Mosques Historic England. `` the mosque ( 427831 ) ''. Images of England. Historic England. `` the entrance walls ( 427832 ) ''. Images of England. 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Sheerwater F.C. Westfield F.C. Woking F.C. Hockey Woking Hockey Club Places of worship in Surrey Lists by district Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Guildford Mole Valley Reigate and Banstead Runnymede Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tandridge Waverley Woking Anglican Current Busbridge Charlwood Chobham Dorking Egham Ewell Farnham Fetcham Godalming Guildford Cathedral of the Holy Spirit Holy Trinity St Mary 's St Nicolas ' Hambledon Horsell Leatherhead Ottershaw Outwood Staines Sutton Green Thames Ditton Woking St Andrew 's Christ Church St John 's St Mark 's St Peter 's Wrecclesham Former Albury Esher Baptist ( including General, Reformed and Strict / Particular ) Current Dormansland Guildford ( Bethel ) Redhill ( Station Road ) Ripley Former Brockham Green Farnham Outwood Smallfield Calvinistic Former Charlwood Epsom Eastern Orthodox Current Brookwood Evangelical, Free Church and C.o.H. Connexion Current Pains Hill Latter - day Saints Current Newchapel ( London England Temple ) Methodist Current Godalming ( URC / Methodist ) Hale Muslim Current Woking Presbyterian, Congregational and United Reformed Current Dorking Elstead Farnham Godalming ( URC / Methodist ) Oxted Redhill Reigate Former Godalming Hindhead Quaker Current Capel Dorking Godalming Guildford Reigate Roman Catholic Current Camberley Caterham Chiddingfold Dorking Englefield Green Farnham Godalming Leatherhead Oxted Woking Former Chilworth ( friary church ) Salvation Army Former Godalming Unitarian Current Godalming Former Guildford Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shah_Jahan_Mosque,_Woking&oldid=823170254 '' Categories : 1889 establishments in England 19th - century mosques Grade II * listed buildings in Surrey Grade II * listed places of worship Mosques in England Places of worship in Surrey Religion in Surrey Mosques completed in 1889 Woking Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Kinyarwanda اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 30 January 2018, at 17 : 45. 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Question: when was the first mosque built in the uk
Answer: 1889