Surat city came in existence in 1530 A.D. Surat was a port city and was also known as Babul Makkah. Our fore fathers who were mostly business men and some had overseas business also gradually started migrating to Surat from Patan.

The exact date of forming an organisation as Jamaat is unknown. But it is also a fact that a community’s one of the major requirement is a Qabrastan where they can bury their dead relatives so a part of land of our Maqbara Qabrastan was donated by Janab Abdur Rahman bin Muhammed bin Abdur Rahman in 1751 A.D.

This shows that some sort of Jamaat organisation must have come in force before this date.