Sunshine Mosque (Victoria, Australia)
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 proprietors 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 exceeds $2,500,000.
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