Faithful Reflections

More than 10,000 volumes in five languages — the only substantial Islamic library in Kathmandu Millat-e-Islamia Nepal: Library, Clinic and Quran Classes Community Profiles · Nepal · extended edition · last updated July 2026 · 27 minute read In short Millat-e-Islamia Nepal is the oldest surviving Muslim organisation in the country, founded in the early 1970s. It runs the largest Islamic library in Nepal, a low-cost clinic open to everyone, and home-based Qur'an classes for children who cannot get religious instruction at school. It also owns the Kathmandu building that houses most of the country's other major Muslim organisations — which makes it, quietly, the physical foundation of Nepali Muslim institutional life. This extended edition sets that story in its full context: five centuries of Muslim settlement in Kathmandu, the Panchayat conditions the organisation was founded under, how the scholarship scheme behind its clinic actually works, and what the whole a...