ahmadiyya is a small branch of islam in singapore. the community was established during the era of the second caliphate, shortly before the second world war. ghulam ahsan ayyaz was the first missionary to the country, who under the directive of the caliph arrived in 1935, in a period when the territory was part of the straits settlements. in the 1970s, the community had roughly 200 followers, represented by 1-2% of the muslim population.