Find out about this and more with a Muslim History Tour of the area

A tour of key sites relating to Muslim history in Acton is taking place this Thursday 12 April.

Beginning at 10.30am it will be a chance to find out about the religion’s long and rich association with the area including the visit of the world’s most famous ever sportsman.

Muhammad Ali visiting an Acton School. Picture: Alamy

Hear about Acton's famous female resident who travelled to the Ottoman Empire in the 1700s and found Muslim women different to those she had read about.

Who was the famous Muslim in Acton in the early 1900s whose work went worldwide, by translating the Quran into the Arabic language?

Discover the first Muslim prayers that took place in 1940s Acton unconnected to the present three Mosques of Acton.

Find out about the Muslim converts from Acton from the time of trials to recognition.

An emergency 999 phone call is made to the police by an organiser of a Muslim event. Why? Where? When?

The tour will begin from outside Portico Estate Agents, at 137 High Street.

From £6 and places must be booked online.

April 11, 2018