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Crown Prince Faisal visiting Woking Mosque, February 1939

Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (1906–1975), King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975

In February 1939, Crown Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, who was Foreign Minister of his country at the time and later ruled as King from 1964 to 1975, visited the U.K. to attend the Palestine Conference in London. During his visit he attended a function held in his honour at the Woking Mosque on 19th February 1939. A report of this was published in The Islamic Review, May 1939 on pages 162–164. At this link you can read the report as printed in that issue.

Faisal at Woking Mosque, February 1939

The Imam of the Woking Muslim Mission, Maulana Aftab-ud-Din Ahmad, is on the left (wearing turban). In the centre (holding paper) is Mr. Ismail De Yorke, Chairman of the Muslim Society in Britain.

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