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On August 10, 1974, Abdul Wahab Adam was appointed as the Amir (Head) and missionary-in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission of Ghana by the then caliph of the Ahmadiyya movement, Mirza Nasir Ahmad. Adam was the first indigenous Ghanaian to hold this office. [27]
Yadgar Mosque, the "first" mosque of Rabwah. Rabwah. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community established itself in Rabwah on September 30, 1948. [4] Rabwah was a town founded and created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the time of its Second Caliph, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and was named ‘Rabwah’ by the Ahmadiyya Missionary Jalal-ud-Din Shams.
Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious movement originating in 1889 in northern India around the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times.
Adam was born in December 1938 at Brofeyedur Adansi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. [citation needed] He completed his secondary education at T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Kumasi and proceeded to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Seminary and Ahmadiyya Theological University in Pakistan, where he received a Diploma in Arabic and an honours degree in theology and Islamic jurisprudence in 1960.
According to the Ghana Statistical Service's Population and Housing census (2021), the percentage of Muslims in Ghana is about 19.9%. [ 2 ] According to a comprehensive report by the Association of Religion Data Archives , 63.2% of Muslims are followers of Sunni Islam , while approximately 36.8% belong to the Ahmadiyya movement.
Bashir Ahmad Orchard – first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent; Abdul Wahab Adam [5] – Ameer (Head) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana; member of National Peace Council; member of National Reconciliation Commission
Ahmadiyya, [a] officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), [4] [b] is an Islamic messianic [5] [6] movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. [7] [8] [9] It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by ...
The school was established by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, in 1968 as a middle school. The following year, the school was converted into a secondary school.