🟢 🚶‍♂️Walking in Woking: Horsell Common & Visit to the Shah Jahan Mosque 🕌

🕌 Walking in Woking: A short day trip to visit the first purpose built Mosque in the UK and Northern Europe (1889) + A walk to the Peace Gardens (Muslim soldiers burial ground for WWI/WW2), Horsell Common woodlands, River Wey path and Woking Town.

🌐 Woking Mosque

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📏13km / (8 miles)
💓 Av. Pace: 4.9 km/h
[A number of roads cross the trail due to the layout of the town]

📍 Meeting Point: Waterloo Station (opposite platform 3)

⌚Meet from 9:31am. The trains departs at 10:00am
[Arrives: 10:32am at Woking, Retrun aiming for 3:28pm or 3:48pm train - depending on pace/breaks ]

✊ Reminder: Active Muslims is equally about focusing on the actual activity, in this case, it is a paced walk (and not a stroll), therefore it is advised to approach and attend these events with that mindset.

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🚻 Toilets: At Waterloo Station, Mosque/Woking Shopping Centre.

🧎 Salat: We will take a break for prayer on-route

🚶‍♂️We will also do a bit of Walking in Woking, visit the town centre and also pass The Martian Tripod sculpture. H.G. Wells set the location for The War of the Worlds novel entirely in his hometown of Woking. It was first published in 1897.

🕌 The Shah Jahan Mosque (Woking Mosque) was built in 1889 as the first purpose build mosque in the UK and Northern Europe, build by Hungarian-British Orientalist and partly funded by Sultan Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, as a place for students at the Oriental Institute in Woking to worship. It is a Grade I listed building.

💠 Peace Gardens: The original Woking Muslim Military Cemetery was opened in 1917 by the British Government to counteract German propaganda that Muslim Indian soldiers from the army were not being buried according to their religious rites. Muslim Indian soldiers connected with WW1 were buried there and a further 8 connected with WW2. It is a Grade II listed building.

🎒 What to bring: appropriate clothing/boots, water, packed lunch.
👕 Advisable to have layers, you will get hot when hiking and cold when not - ability to put layeres on/off may keep you more comfortable.
🥾 Hiking boots are recommended.
🧦 Double socks are a good tip for walking/hiking (reduces chance of blisters - if you don't have hiking socks).

🗂️ "No shows" for previous events may be moved to the waitlist/not going to prioritise reliable attendees / new joiners - when there is a waiting list, priority is given by attendance records / new joiners.
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⛑️ Disclaimer: You are solely responsible for your own safety on these events and have the fitness level required for it. That you do not require special attention, medication or additional care. You are also responsible for your belonging at all times.

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🚦 Walk/Hike Levels:
🟢 Easy
🟡 Average
🟠 Moderate
🔴 Challenging
⚫ Very Challenging