How Australia’s first outback mosque was built 600km north of Adelaide, 150 years ago
- Written by Ismail Albayrak, Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University
The Mosque at Hergott Springs, photographed around 1884.State Library South AustraliaFrom 1860 to 1930, an estimated 3,000 people came to Australia from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and the northern part of Pakistan. Still more came from different parts of the Ottoman Empire.
The arrival of these “Afghans”, and the camels...
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