The Tuvalu Mosque, or Ahmadiyya Tuvalu Mosque, is the only mosque in Tuvalu. It is located in the nation's capital, Funafuti, on Te Auala Street in Vaiaku. It is adjacent to the Funafuti International Airport. It serves as the place of worship for a community of about ~400 Ahmadi Muslims in Tuvalu, according to the 2012 census. The current leader of the Tuvaluan Ahamdi Muslims is Anugerah Rahadian Firdaus, an Indonesian missionary. It has a capacity of 100 people. [1]
Ahmadiyya was first brought to Tuvalu circa 1985 by Iftikhar A. Ayaz, a man from London appointed by the British government to work in education in Tuvalu. He converted some Tuvaluans to Ahmadiyya, including the first Ahmadi Muslim in the South Pacific, a Funafuti woman by the name of Sunema Rusia, who was working for the Tuvalu Red Cross.
In 1990 the entire Quran was translated into Tuvaluan, by Pulekai Sogivaly and Waleed Katalake. The Tuvalu Mosque began construction in 1987, under Dr. Iftikhar Ayyaz's supervision, and was completed in 1991. [2]