Founding of Ahmadiyya Movement

Date: March 23, 1889 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

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 initially the Mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century, followed by the claim to be both the promised Messiah and Mahdi, in regard to Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as being Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu, for the Hindus.