Farzana Khanum
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
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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.”
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She described feeling “tingly” with emotion hearing about the history of the pieces in the exhibition
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Ms Khanum said, while Muslims learn a lot about Islam locally, bringing the sacred artefacts to her home town was “on a different level”.
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BBC News Article:
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Sacred Islamic artefacts go on display at Scunthorpe school – BBC News
