Discover Black Muslim history in Vauxhall, Stockwell and Brixton

Sunday 24 October 2021

From St James Park tube station (Broadway entrance) the station is served by Circle and District lines.

 

Highlights

• Ambassadors — trials, parade, and legacy
• Nelson Mandela & Ahmed Kathrada together with anti-blackness in South Asians
• Hidden plaque opposite parliament
• Slave, dawah, and Quran
• Tragedy, converts, and Islamophobia
• Malcolm X files
• Black history more than slavery
• Paintings of the past shaping the present

Lambeth Black Muslim History Tour

(Vauxhall, Stockwell and Brixton)

From Starbucks, Vauxhall bus station Closest Tube Station: Vauxhall served by the Victoria Line. The following bus routes also stop at Vauxhall bus station: 2, 36, 77, 87, 88, 156, 185, 196, 344, 360, 436, 452

Thursday 21st Oct 2021 10:30 AM
Sunday 24th Oct 2021 11:00 AM

Highlights

• Forgotten pioneer Duse Muhammad Ali
• Activist Leila Hassan
• Early prayer places and myths
• Development of Black Mosques in Lambeth
• Community Charity Muslim Sister’s Jamaat set up in 1988 by black female converts to Islam
• First black South African MP

Shepherds Bush Black Muslim History Tour

From outside Shepherd’s Bush Mosque. Served by buses 207, 607 and about a 5 minute walk from Shepherd’s Bush Market station (Hammersmith & City line). 10 minute walk from Shepherd’s Bush tube station (Central Line).

Thursday 28th Oct 2021 10:30 AM
Sunday 31st Oct 2021 11:00 AM

Hightlights

• Ahlam Saed -A woman who took on an Islamophobic person!
• Shepherds Bush Mosque
• Muhammad Ali
• 100-year-old Somali Community
• What was Duse Muhammad Ali doing in Shepherds Bush in 1908?
• Who was the African Muslim footballer to play football in WW1 and has a street named after him?
• Egyptian House