About forty thousand people from across the globe are set to descend on a Hampshire Farm for the UK’s largest annual Muslim convention.
The Jalsa Salana UK, organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, is the UK’s largest Muslim convention and has been running for the past 58 years with 19 of them at the current site at the 210-acre Oakland Farm, East Worldham, Alton.
Participants are coming from more than 100 countries to focus on the promotion of peace, religious knowledge, and international brotherhood.
A spokesperson for the organisers said: “The site is a Hampshire farm, which is turned into a global village in the two weeks prior to the event and taken down within a week.
“The convention will feature addresses by His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, along with various esteemed guest speakers.
“(We have) messages of support from His …