A remote and unknown town, Qadian in Gurdaspur emerged as a centre of religious learning in the year 1889, when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and in the year 1891, it became the venue for the annual gatherings of the communities. Qadian remained the administrative headquarters and the capital of the Ahmadiyya Caliphate until the partition of India in the year 1947 when much of the Community migrated to Pakistan. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah & Mahdi-which is the metaphorical second coming of Jesus, in fulfilment of the Islam's latter-day prophecies, as well as the Mujaddid (centennial reviver) of the 14th Islamic century.