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Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, the first Ahmadiyya missionary to the United States, lectured in South Bend in 1922 — no Ahmadiyya congregation is documented in the city today
The visit: The Ahmadiyya movement's own historical record, drawing on its newspaper Al Fazl of June 8 and 22, 1922, relates that Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, the first Ahmadiyya missionary to the United States, while in Niles, Michigan, for medical treatment under Dr. Frederick Bonine, "paid a visit to the nearby city of South Bend, Indiana. There, he delivered many lectures, distributed literature and gave interviews on Islam." The episode is the earliest documented Muslim preaching in the city. No Ahmadiyya mosque or chapter is documented in present-day South Bend; the nearest Ahmadiyya mosque found in the record is in Indianapolis.
Sources:
- AhmadiPedia, "Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in the USA," citing Al Fazl, June 1922 — Sadiq's treatment at Niles and his lecturing visit to South Bend.