Ahmadiyya Muslims to hold major convention in Galway

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, Ireland will hold its 11th Jalsa Salana, or annual convention, this Sunday, at Clayton Hotel. The day-long event will be attended by community members from across Ireland. It will officially begin with a flag hoisting ceremony in the morning in which the Irish Tricolour, and the flags of the four provinces will be raised, along with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community flag.

The convention proper begins at 12 noon and will be addressed by Imam Ibrahim Noonan, the community’s Irish Imam based in Galway where the community is building its first mosque, Masjid Maryum (The Mary Mosque). (...)