Public Health Officer, North Lincolnshire Council
Farzana Khanum visited the Kiswa Arts & Culture Gallery event on 21st August 2025. She loved the concept, expressed her admiration, and showed immense support for the project. Farzana has also pledged her full support moving forward.
Visitor Farzana Khanum, 50, said: “I don’t want to get emotional, but I feel that energy today and it took me back to pilgrimage [to Mecca] last year.”
Described as a historical and spiritual journey through centuries of devotion, craftsmanship and reverence, the free event included the rare Kiswa, a cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone structure at the heart of the Great Mosque in Mecca, which is considered the spiritual centre of Islam.
Ms Khanum said: “It’s good to see people from our community as well as other communities.”
She described feeling “tingly” with emotion hearing about the history of the pieces in the exhibition.
Ms Khanum said, while Muslims learn a lot about Islam locally, bringing the sacred artefacts to her home town was “on a different level”.
BBC News Article:
Sacred Islamic artefacts go on display at Scunthorpe school – BBC News