Adelaide. Park Holm. The Masjid Omar Bin Alkhattab Mosque. Stained glass window above the entrance doors to the mosque..
The Masjid Omar Bin Alkhattab Mosque Park Holme.
Immigration to early South Australia was mainly from Britain and Germany. However, Sir Thomas Elder employed Afghans to breed camels for desert transportation of wool .He first shipped 109 camels to SA from the Middle East in 1865. The first Afghans arrived in SA at the same time and more arrived to work with camels providing supplies for the erection of the overland telegraph in 1872. Many of the cameleers ended up residing round Maree which was the start of the Birdsville track to QLD and other remote outback places. Consequently a half walled earth mud and thatch mosque was erected in Marree in 1884. This was followed by the Adelaide Mosque in 1889 which still stands with its four corner minarets. These early Muslims, who were mainly cameleers were from north-western India (now Pakistan, and the Khyber Pass area of Afghanistan. Eventually some had wives but they were mainly of non-Muslim background. The first major immigration of Muslims to South Australia began in the 1950s with refugees from Indonesia and Bosnia in Europe. By then the Adelaide Mosque was in disrepair and these new arrivals had the Mosque restored. In more recent decades Muslim migrants have arrived from the Middle East, Lebanon, Turkey and parts of Asia. There are now quite a few mosques In SA including Mosques at Park Holm, Woodville, the city, Mile End, Gilles Plains, Pooraka, Parafield Gardens, Greenfields, Elizabeth Grove, Gepps Cross, Kilburn, Royal Park, Beverley, Murray Bridge, Renmark, Whyalla and Virginia. Several mosques meet in former churches such as the new one at Virginia. The mosques vary in faith like Christian denominations and In SA they are mainly Sunni but we also have Shia mosques. Like Christianity and Judaism Islam emerged in the Middle East and shares some of the same values. Muslims believe in one God Allah and the prophets including Adam, Moses Abraham etc. The Holy Qur’an based on the verbal revelations of Muhammad lays down the law, commandments, codes for social and moral behaviour and religious philosophy.
Adelaide. Park Holm. The Masjid Omar Bin Alkhattab Mosque. Stained glass window above the entrance doors to the mosque..
The Masjid Omar Bin Alkhattab Mosque Park Holme.
Immigration to early South Australia was mainly from Britain and Germany. However, Sir Thomas Elder employed Afghans to breed camels for desert transportation of wool .He first shipped 109 camels to SA from the Middle East in 1865. The first Afghans arrived in SA at the same time and more arrived to work with camels providing supplies for the erection of the overland telegraph in 1872. Many of the cameleers ended up residing round Maree which was the start of the Birdsville track to QLD and other remote outback places. Consequently a half walled earth mud and thatch mosque was erected in Marree in 1884. This was followed by the Adelaide Mosque in 1889 which still stands with its four corner minarets. These early Muslims, who were mainly cameleers were from north-western India (now Pakistan, and the Khyber Pass area of Afghanistan. Eventually some had wives but they were mainly of non-Muslim background. The first major immigration of Muslims to South Australia began in the 1950s with refugees from Indonesia and Bosnia in Europe. By then the Adelaide Mosque was in disrepair and these new arrivals had the Mosque restored. In more recent decades Muslim migrants have arrived from the Middle East, Lebanon, Turkey and parts of Asia. There are now quite a few mosques In SA including Mosques at Park Holm, Woodville, the city, Mile End, Gilles Plains, Pooraka, Parafield Gardens, Greenfields, Elizabeth Grove, Gepps Cross, Kilburn, Royal Park, Beverley, Murray Bridge, Renmark, Whyalla and Virginia. Several mosques meet in former churches such as the new one at Virginia. The mosques vary in faith like Christian denominations and In SA they are mainly Sunni but we also have Shia mosques. Like Christianity and Judaism Islam emerged in the Middle East and shares some of the same values. Muslims believe in one God Allah and the prophets including Adam, Moses Abraham etc. The Holy Qur’an based on the verbal revelations of Muhammad lays down the law, commandments, codes for social and moral behaviour and religious philosophy.