Qadian is a city and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district, north-east of Amritsar, situated 18 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of Batala city in the state of Punjab, India. Qadian is the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement within Islam. It remained the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya movement until the Partition of India in 1947.
Minaret-ul-Masih of Aqsa Mosque located alongside a Mandir and Gurudwara is one of the major landmarks of Qadian
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian.
A welcome signboard in Qadian in Punjabi, Urdu, and English respectively
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdī—which is the metaphorical second-coming of Jesus (mathīl-iʿIsā), in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as the Mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century.
Ahmad, c. 1897
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (seated centre) with some of his companions at Qadian c. 1899.
Jama Masjid, Delhi, 1852, William Carpenter.
Alexander Dowie in his robes as "Elijah the Restorer."
