Sunshine Mosque

Sunshine Mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Mosque
Ownership	Cyprus Turkish Islamic Community of Victoria
Status	Active
Location
Location	Sunshine, (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
Location in greater metropolitan Melbourne
Geographic coordinates	37°46′19″S 144°48′04″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Ottoman architecture
Completed	1992
Construction cost	A$2,500,000
Specifications
Dome(s)	17
Minaret(s)	1
Website
sunshinemosque.com.au

The Sunshine Mosque is an Ottoman/Turkish-style mosque located in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The mosque contains 17 domes, a minaret, and a courtyard. The mosque is owned by the Cyprus Turkish Islamic Community of Victoria.

History

In 1985, the Turkish Cypriot community in Melbourne saw the potential to build a mosque on a vacant block on Ballarat Road in Sunshine, Melbourne. Three members of the Cyprus Turkish Islamic Society offered their homes as guarantors to the Bank and became the owners of the lot for $191,000. Construction of the Turkish Cypriot Mosque began in 1992. The Mosque was designed to mirror the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. According to a recent calculation by the committee of the Cyprus Turkish Islamic Society, the total expenditure of the Mosque exceeded $2,500,000.

See also

• Islam in Australia
• List of mosques in Oceania

External links

• Official Website