Both in Christianity and Islam there have been at all times earnest souls to whom their religion has been the supreme reality of their lives, and this absorbing interest in matters of the spirit has found expression in that zeal for the communication of cherished truths and for the domination of doctrines and systems they have deemed perfect, which constitutes the vivifying force of missionary movements, — and there have likewise been those without the pale, who have responded to their appeal and have embraced the new faith with a like fervour. — T. W. Arnold, p. 9
- Islam in Late Nineteenth-Century England: A Brief Introduction
- A Visit to the Church of Islam (1892)
- Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking, Surrey
Mosques elsewhere featured in the Victorian Web
- Mosque of Mustapha Khan. — Beejapore
- The Mosque of Kait-Bey, Cairo
- The Mosque of St. Sophia from the South-east (engraving of a photograph)
- The Mosque of Gholaum Mahomed, Calcutta (Kolkata)
- The Jamna Musjid, Delhi
- The Masjid-i Jahān-Numā (the "World-reflecting Mosque"), Palayam, Trivandrum
- The Street and Mosque of the Ghoreeyah, Cairo, painting by John Frederick Lewis
- Mosque of the Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rumeyleh by David Roberts, R.A.
- Moti Musjid, the Pearl Mosque, Agra
- Sultan Mosque, Singapore
- Description of the Jumna Masjid, Delhi
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