The centre is to be named after the fourth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, who died in April 2003 and whose desire it was to have such a centre in Rabwah.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928–2003), fourth Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
During his Caliphate, the community experienced structural and financial growth including the launch of the first Muslim satellite television network, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya, in 1994.
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad was the grandson the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, he was the son of Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph from his wife Syeda Maryam Begum, and was the half-brother of Mirza Nasir Ahmad, the third Caliph.
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 4th Khalīfatul Masīh,led the community through periods of severe persecution, provisionally changed the Ahmadiyya headquarters from Rabwah to London and launched the first Ahmadiyya satellite TV channel by the name of Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International.
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The caliph of the community Mirza Tahir Ahmad shifted and central headquarters were shifted there.
The Basharat Mosque (span.: Mezquita Basharat; the name means “good news”) was inaugurated on September 10, 1982 in Pedro Abad, in the Spanish comarca of Alto Guadalquivir, province of Córdoba by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (late), fourth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (currently fifth Caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad heads the Community).