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A listing of mosques (masjids) and musallahs in Australia was maintained by Islamiaonline until around 2016.[1]
Australian Capital Territory
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in the Australian Capital Territory.[2]
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Canberra | Gungahlin | Gungahlin Mosque | 2017[3] | |||
Monash | Canberra Islamic Centre | ![]() |
Includes the Australian National Islamic Library[4] | |||
Yarralumla | Canberra Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni |
New South Wales
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in New South Wales.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Port Macquarie | Historic Court House | Sunni, Shia | Although none exist in the city, the historic court house does many services. Does Jumu’ah only | |||
Central Coast | San Remo | San Remo Musalla | ||||
Gosford | Gosford Musalla | |||||
Dubbo | Dubbo South | Dubbo Mosque | ||||
Bathurst | Al Sahabah Kelso Mosque | |||||
Bourke | Bourke cemetery mosque | ![]() |
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Broken Hill | William Street Mosque | ![]() |
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Albury-Wodonga | Albury North | Albury Mussalla ISAW | ||||
Lismore | Lismore Musalla | A musalla rather than a mosque | ||||
Griffith | Kotku Riaz Mosque | |||||
Newcastle | Wallsend | Newcastle Mosque | Also known as the Wallsend Mosque. | |||
Mayfield | Newcastle Islamic Centre | |||||
Armidale | University Of New England Musalla | At the University Of New England | ||||
Wagga Wagga | Islamic Studies Centre | 1995 | More a Musalla than a mosque. Originally designed Marcie Webster-Mannison for Charles Sturt University students and staff, it is also used by the Muslim community of Wagga Wagga and the Riverina region of New South Wales.[5] | |||
Coffs Harbour | Southern Cross University Musalla | More a musalla than a mosque, located at the Southern Cross University | ||||
Sydney | Arncliffe | Al-Zahra Mosque | Shia | |||
Auburn | Auburn Gallipoli Mosque | 1999 | Sunni - Turkish community | |||
Bankstown | Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque | Shia | Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari | |||
Blacktown | Afghan Osman Mosque | ![]() |
Afghan | Afghan Community Support Association of NSW Australia | ||
Bonnyrigg | Bonnyrigg Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni - Turkish community | President: Muhammet Eris
Imam: Osman Cavuslu | ||
Greenacre | Malek Fahd Islamic School Mosque | Sunni | ||||
Lakemba | Lakemba Mosque | ![]() |
1977 | Lebanese Muslim Association Also known as the Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb Mosque Reportedly Australia's largest mosque.[6][7][8][9][10][11] | ||
Marsden Park | Baitul Huda Mosque | 1989 | Ahmadiyya[12] | |||
Mount Druitt | Mount Druitt Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni - Turkish community |
Queensland
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in Queensland.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Stockleigh | Bait-ul-Masroor | 23/10/2013 | Ahmadiyya Muslim Association | Accommodates 2,000 worshipers, men and women. Motto: Love for all hatred for none. Ahmadiyya Muslims believe the long-awaited latter-day Messiah appeared in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS) 1835-1908 and he is now succeeded by the fifth Khalifa-tul-Maseeh (Caliphate and spiritual successorship on the precept of prophethood). | ||
Brisbane | West End | West End Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni | ||
Kuraby | Masjid al-Farooq (Kuraby Mosque) | ![]() |
1990s | Sunni | Original mosque was burnt down in 2001, rebuilt later in the year.[13][14] | |
Holland Park | Holland Park Mosque | 1908 | Sunni | Original building constructed in 1908, redeveloped as the modern mosque later. | ||
Lutwyche | Masjidus Sunnah | ![]() |
1990s | Sunni | ||
Eight Mile Plains | Bosnian Islamic Centre | ![]() |
2014 | Sunni - Bosnian community | ||
Algester | Algester Mosque | 1990 | Sunni | |||
Darra | Darra Mosque | Sunni | ||||
Eagleby | Eagleby Mosque | 2000 | ||||
Moorooka | Moorooka Mosque | 2015 | ||||
Townsville | Mundingburra | Townsville Islamic Society | ![]() |
1980s | Sunni | |
Cairns | Cairns North | Abu Bakr As-Saddiq Mosque/ Cairns Mosque | ![]() |
2014 | Sunni | |
Mackay | Bakers Creek | Islamic Society of Mackay | Sunni | |||
Mareeba | Mareeba | Mareeba and District Memorial Mosque | ![]() |
1970 | Sunni - Albanian community | Built by the Albanian community during 1969-1970, and dedicated to Australian soldiers who lost their lives in war.[15][16][17] |
Rockhampton | Rockhampton | Islamic Society of Central Queensland | ![]() |
Sunni | ||
Bundaberg | Bundaberg North | Turkish Islamic Association of Bundaberg | Sunni - Turkish community | |||
Toowoomba | Harristown | Toowoomba Mosque | 2014 | Sunni | Originally a church built in 1910 prior to being redeveloped as a mosque in 2014. Damaged and later rebuilt following a 2015 arson attack. |
South Australia
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in South Australia.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Adelaide | Adelaide | Central Adelaide Mosque | ![]() |
1888 | The Adelaide Mosque is the oldest surviving mosque in Australia and the first to be built in an Australian city. Erected in 1888–89, it was designed to meet the spiritual needs of Muslim cameleers and traders coming in from work in South Australia’s northern regions. | |
Park Holme | Masjid Omar Bin Al Khattab | Also known as the Marion Masjid Islamic Society of South Australia[18] | ||||
Woodville North | Islamic Arabic Centre & Masjid Al Khalil | |||||
Gilles Plains | Wandana Mosque | |||||
Pooraka | Imam Ali Mosque | |||||
Parafield Gardens | Parafield Gardens Masjid | |||||
Green Fields | Green Fields Mosque | |||||
Elizabeth Grove | Elizabeth Mosque | |||||
Gepps Cross | Layla Sadri Tatar Community Centre | |||||
Kilburn | Husayniat 'Ahl Albayt | |||||
Royal Park | Royal Park Mosque | |||||
Beverley | Mahmood Mosque | |||||
Mile End | Islamic Information Centre of SA | |||||
Enfield | Faizan e Madina[19] | |||||
Murray Bridge | Murray Bridge Turkish Mosque | |||||
Renmark | Renmark Mosque | |||||
Whyalla | Whyalla Mosque | |||||
Marree | Marree Mosque | ![]() |
1862 | Afghan | Considered to be the first mosque built on the Australian continent. No longer in use. |
Tasmania
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in Tasmania.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Hobart | West Hobart | Hobart Mosque | ![]() |
1985 |
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Launceston | Kings Meadows | The House of Guidance | 2021 |
Victoria
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in Victoria.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Melbourne | Carlton North | Carlton Mosque | ![]() |
1969 | Sunni - Albanian community | Built by the Albanian community in the late 1960s, it is the oldest mosque in Melbourne[20][21][22] and listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.[23] |
Dandenong | Dandenong Mosque | ![]() |
1985 | Sunni - Albanian community | Built by the Albanian community in 1985,[24] it is one of the earliest mosques in Victoria.[25] | |
Coburg | Fatih mosque | ![]() |
Sunni - Turkish community | |||
Preston | Preston Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni - Arabic community | |||
Reservoir | Reservoir Mosque | ![]() |
Sunni - Albanian community | |||
Sunshine | Sunshine Mosque | ![]() |
1985 | Sunni - Turkish community | The largest mosque in Victoria | |
Deer Park | Deer Park Mosque | 1993 | Sunni - Bosnian community | |||
Thomastown | Thomastown Mosque | ![]() |
early 1990s | Sunni - Turkish Community | Built (early 1990s) by the Turkish Australian community and located opposite Thomastown train station.[26] | |
Tarneit | Melbourne Grand Mosque | 2020 | Sunni | |||
Shepparton | Albanian Mosque | ![]() |
1960 | Sunni - Albanian community | Built by the Albanian community in the late 1950s, it is the first[15][27] and oldest mosque in both Shepparton and Victoria.[20][28] | |
Mooroopna | Mooroopna Mosque | Sunni - Turkish community |
Western Australia
[edit]The following is a list of mosques in Western Australia.
City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Perth | Perth | Perth Mosque | ![]() |
1906 | The oldest mosque in Perth and the second oldest purpose-built mosque in Australia.[29] | |
Wangara | Alhidayah Centre | |||||
Malaga | Al Khalil Mosque | 2019 | ||||
Wattle Grove | Al Falah Mosque | 2015 | ||||
Langford | Al Latief Mosque | |||||
Padbury | Al Majid Mosque | |||||
Gosnells | Al Rahman Mosque | |||||
Mirrabooka | Al Taqwa Mosque | 1997 | ||||
Armadale | Armadale Masjid and Islamic Center | 2016 | ||||
Rockingham | Ar Rukun Mosque | ![]() |
1998 | |||
Belmont | Furqan Islamic Centre | |||||
Southern River | Masjid Ibrahim | |||||
Rivervale | Rivervale Mosque | 1977 | Perth’s second oldest metropolitan mosque and headquarters of the Islamic Council of Western Australia.[30] | |||
Queens Park | Suleymaniye Mosque | 1982 | Turkish community | |||
Caversham | Swan Valley Mosque and Islamic Centre | 2007 | Bosnian community | |||
Thornlie | Thornlie Mosque | |||||
Geraldton | Geraldton Mosque | |||||
Port Hedland | Islamic Association of North Western Australia | |||||
Karratha | Karratha Mosque | |||||
Katanning | Katanning Mosque | 1980 | The mosque was opened in 1980 after it was built by the local Islamic community who arrived in Katanning in 1974 from Christmas Island and Cocos Islands.[31] | |||
Kalgoorlie | Masjid e Quba Islamic Center | |||||
Newman | Newman Mosque |
Australian external territories
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Home_Island_Mosque.jpg/220px-Home_Island_Mosque.jpg)
Christmas Island
[edit]There is one mosque on Christmas Island, which is located in Flying Fish Cove, the main town on the island.[32]
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
[edit]The territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is an external territory of Australia. There are only two permanently inhabited islands:
- The West Island Mosque is a heritage-listed mosque at Alexander Street, on West Island.[33]
- The Home Island Mosque is on Home Island.[34][35]
See also
[edit]References
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