Marriage Registration Record Book

Contains records of marriages performed at the Wekande Mosque in Slave Island, Colombo, beginning in 1924. Arabic, Tamil, English, and Arabu-Tamil.

Physical characteristics of original material: Pages are brown, the book has no spine, so the pages are held together very loosely. Some pages are torn.Some pages have notes written in Arabu-Tamil. All marriages were officiated by Hadji B. Latiff so his signature appears in the records. Extent and format of original material: record book, 88 folios. Custodial history: Inherited from Farooq Latiff's father, Muyinudeen Buhary Latiff, who inherited the book from his father, Buhary Noordeen Latiff. Owner of original material: Farooq Latiff.