Qadian

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Qadian ( Urdu قادیان, DMG Qadian ) is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, about 120 km from Lahore away.

History

The city was founded in the 16th century by Mirza Hadi Beg, as this settled with 200 followers at the site of the present city center. Mirza Hadi Beg gave the settlement the name of Islampur ( full of Islam).

As Mirza Hadi Beg was bequeathed by the emperor was a Jagir was seat of the Municipality and was named Islampur Qazi (or Qadi ). The name Islampur was allowed to gradually fall; you named the village only Qadi and finally it became Qadian. The village was then on the seat of the family, and despite the distance from the capital Delhi clad members of the family under the rule of the Mughals influential state offices.

Qadian is the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who is a descendant of Mirza Hadi Beg. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the Messiah and Mahdi of the Ahmadiyya movement, which he founded in 1889. In addition, the second, third and fourth Khilafat al - Masih of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, Mirza Nasir Ahmad Mirza Tahir Ahmad and which acted as the successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born in Qadian.

The city was first the center of the Ahmadiyya movement. After the partition of British India in 1947, it moved its headquarters to the Muslim, so now the Pakistani part of Punjab and founded the city of Rabwah.

Demography

The census of 2001 showed a population of 20 827, with 54% of men and women make up the rest. The literacy rate of Qadian is 75 % higher than the national average of 59.5 %.

Attractions

• White Minaret