Holidays & Trips (Picnic in the Park & the Muslim Walthamstow Tour) - 01/04/2017

No registration required for the trips, just show up inshallah!
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Trip 1 - Picnic in the Park

https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/leyton-jubilee-park 

Just come along to the park with your picnic!  

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Trip 2 - The Walthamstow Muslim History Tour

http://www.muslimhistorytours.com/en_GB/walthamstow

Discounted Prices for FEC Students & Parents:
£5.00 :  ages 4 to 11
£7.50 :  ages 12 to 16
£10 :      16+

Please bring cash on the day

Learn how the Muslims numbering only 4,000 in 1960s experienced life in Walthamstow. Find out how they struggled in their lives to establish their first Mosque from Paki-bashing, racist attacks, petrol bombs and deaths! Discover where some of the earliest Muslim prayer places were! What was Abdulla doing on the High Street in 1920s complete with his own signpost? Where do you find Moorish architecture from 1930s? The gruesome untold story to the 1969 Eid prayers! Who was the person not born in the Indian Sub-continent, did not speak Urdu but from the Caribbean and was instrumental in giving Dawah to the newly arrived Muslims in the 1960s and 1970s?  How would you work out the prayer direction without a compass?  Join us, on this exciting day to find out the answers! 

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