Walthamstow Tour

For Sun 9th Feb 2025 10:30 AM tour there is a FREE tour that includes the William Morris Arts and Islamic World exhibition.

For purpose of this tour a temporary WhatsApp group will be set-up.  

Muslim History in Walthamstow

Learn how the Muslims, numbering only 4,000 in the 1960s, experienced life in Walthamstow. Find out how they struggled in their lives to establish their first Mosque from Paki-bashing, racist attacks, petrol bombs, and deaths!

Discover where some of the earliest Muslim prayer places were! What was Abdulla doing on the High Street in the 1920s complete with his own signpost? Where do you find Moorish architecture from the 1930s? The gruesome untold story of the 1969 Eid prayers!

Muhammad Narzi Ali was a person not born in the Indian Sub-continent, but in the Caribbean and did not speak Urdu. He was instrumental in giving Dawah to the newly arrived Muslims in the 1960s and 1970s; discover why. How would you work out the prayer direction without a compass?

Join us on this exciting day to find out the answers!

Highlights

• Learn how the Muslims, numbering only 4,000, in the 1960s experienced life in Walthamstow.
• Find out how they struggled in their lives to establish their first Mosque from Paki-bashing, racist attacks, petrol bombs, and deaths!
• See the house where in 1981 Yunus Khan’s family were killed in a fire and how the youth rosed up, closed the High Street, defied a Home Office order.
• Discover where some of the earliest Muslim prayer places were!
• What was Abdulla doing on the High Street in the 1920s complete with his own signpost?
• Where do you find Moorish architecture from the 1930s?
• The gruesome untold story of the 1969 Eid prayers!
• Who was the person who was instrumental in giving Dawah (invitation) to the newly arrived Muslims in the 1960s and 1970s?
• Did you hear about the Muslim convert who emerged from Walthamstow as a world leader?