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Islam In Australia
Islam’s introduction to Australia predates European colonization, through waves of contact and settlement including Macassan interaction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples along the northern coast; Muslim sailors, convicts, and settlers arriving with European colonization; the opening of the interior assisted by Muslim “Afghan” cameleers; settlement of Muslim migrants in the 20th century and an influx of Muslim refugees arriving from various parts of the globe. -
Islam in Australia
Between 1860 and the 1920s, at least 3,000 Muslim and Sikh men from Afghanistan, India, Turkey, Egypt and Iran were recruited to Australia for their skill in driving camels. -
First Mosque in Australia - Marree Mosque
The mosque was constructed by camel breeder Abdul Kadir, owner of Wangamanna Station. -
Muslim and Aboriginals
The first Muslims to settle permanently in Australia were the cameleers, mainly from Afghanistan. Between the 1860s and 1920s, the Muslim camelmen worked the inland tracks and developed relationships with local Aboriginal people. -
Mosque of adelaide
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. -
first Melbourne mosque
Melbourne's first mosque, the Albanian Australian Islamic Society (AAIS) mosque serves the local Albanian Muslim community, as well as Muslims of the inner north of Melbourne. -
Muslim immigration
Large numbers of Lebanese Muslims migrated, to this day they are the largest Muslim group in Australia -
Muslim immigration in Australia
Larger-scale Muslim migration of non-White non-European Muslims began in 1975 with the migration of Lebanese Muslims, which rapidly increased during the Lebanese Civil War from 22,311 or 0.17% of the Australian population in 1971, to 45,200 or 0.33% in 1976. -
Aussie Muslims
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Muslim Population in Australia
To this day, 604,200 (2.6% of Australian population) identify as Muslim