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Fatima (Abader) Alexander - 11/12/2019

The third oldest masjid in South Africa is the Nurul Islam Masjid situated in a small lane off Buitengracht Street in Cape Town. It was founded in 1844 by the younger of Tuan Guru’s sons, Imam Abdol Rauf and is situated about 100 meters from the Auwal Masjid in Dorp Street. It is not known as to what need there was for this masjid to be constructed so close to the Auwal Masjid.

The Nurul Islam Masjid was the first to be founded by a congregation which developed out of friendly-ties which existed among a group of students who acquired Islamic education under the guidance ofImam Achmat van Bengalen. 

n about 1830, Tuan Guru’s two sons [Abdol Rakiep and Abdol Rauf] together with Badroen and also Achmat van Bengalen’s three sons [Mochamat, Hamien and Saddik] got together and established the Mohammedan Shafee Congregation with Abdol Rakiep [d 1834] as Imam. At this stage the Congregation did not have their own masjid. However, their dream was realised on February 27, 1844 when they took transfer of a property in Buitengracht Street, and converted the front section into a prayer room.

Pages from Cape Muslim History by Yusuf Da Cost / Achmat Davids

Imam Achmat Sediek is probably the first muslim to enter into a civil marriage contract at the Cape of Good Hope.

He was attached to the 3rd division of the Malay Corps which was under the command of Captain R.Granger. 4th Lieutenant in Kaffir War 1846. The Cape Malay Corps were honourably discharged on 16 September 1846, and praised for their sacrifices and gallant services in the war. The promise of a mosque site was kept, and they were given the site on which the Jami'ah Mosque in lower Chiappini Street was to be built, It was because of this land grant that this mosque is sometimes referred to as the Queen Victoria Mosque.

Apparently the main figure in the Thomas Baines' watercolour painting "Lieutenant and Priest of the Malays" now in possession of Mr Harry Oppenheimer. During the war, he played the double role of lieutenant and imam and he was presented in this capacity by Thomas Baines. He returned to the Cape and from 1872 to 1878, he was the imam of the Auwal mosque.