A headstone has been installed at the grave of an 'inspiring' Liverpool woman which has been unmarked since the Victorian era.
Believed to be the first woman in England to convert to Islam, Fatima Elizabeth Cates played a leading role in the country's first mosque on Brougham Terrace, and suffered attacks with stones and horse manure for her beliefs. Since 1900, her body lay in an unmarked grave in Anfield cemetery while the legacy of Abdullah Quilliam, the mosque's founder, was preserved in a society named after him and in his own Wikipedia page.
That changed this month when a headstone was erected before evening prayers one Friday, the Muslim day or worship. This was thanks to the £1,700 raised in 24 hours on GoFundMe by Amirah Scarisbrick, a mum from Toxteth who converted to Islam.
