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There are at least seven Ahmadiyya mosques in Fiji. [7] [ better source needed ]
Name | City | Notes |
---|---|---|
Aqsa Mosque | Nadi | |
Baitul Jame Mosque | Taveuni | [8] |
Fazle Umar Mosque | Suva | |
Mahmood Mosque | Suva | |
Mubarak Mosque | Suva | |
Noor Mosque | Seaqaqa | [8] |
Rizwan Mosque | Lautoka | [8] |
There are at least four non-denominational mosques in Fiji. [9] [ better source needed ]
Name | City | Notes |
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Malamala Markaz | Nalovo | |
Momi Masjid | Nadi | |
Nadi Airport Mosque | Nadi | Located in Nadi Airport |
Nalovo Markaz | Nalovo |
The following is a list of mosques in Guam, United States.
Island | Village | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Guam | Mangilao | An-Noor Mosque | 2000 | Guam's only mosque |
The following is a list of mosques in the Marshall Islands.
Island | City | Urban area | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Majuro Atoll | Majuro | Delap-Uliga-Djarrit | Baet-Ul-Ahad Mosque | 2012 | Ahmadiyya | [10] |
The following is a list of mosques in New Caledonia.
Island | Commune | District | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Grande Terre | Bourail | Nessadiou | Centre Islamique de Bourail | 1998 | [11] |
The following is a non-exhaustive list of mosques in New Zealand. As of 2019 there were about 60 mosques and Islamic centres in the country. [12]
Region | City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Auckland | Auckland | Avondale | Avondale Islamic Centre | 1998 | Briefly closed in 2014 until 2015 [13] [14] | ||
Auckland | Manurewa | Baitul Muqeet Mosque | 2013 | Ahmadiyya | |||
Auckland | Glen Eden | Masjid-e-Bilal | [15] [16] | ||||
Auckland | Ponsonby | Ponsonby Masjid | 1979 | New Zealand's first mosque [17] | |||
Auckland | Rānui | West Auckland Mosque and Islamic Centre | 1995 | [18] | |||
Bay of Plenty | Tauranga | Tauranga South | Tauranga Mosque | [19] | |||
Canterbury | Christchurch | Riccarton | Al Noor Mosque | 1985 | Sunni | First mosque in the South Island [20] | |
Christchurch | Linwood | Linwood Islamic Centre | 2018 | Sunni | |||
Timaru | Parkside | Bilal Mosque and Timaru Islamic Centre | 2021 | [21] | |||
Hawke's Bay | Hastings | Parkvale | Baitul Mokarram Masjid and Islamic Centre | 2010 | [22] | ||
Manawatū-Whanganui | Palmerston North | West End | Palmerston North Islamic Centre | 1995 | Originally established in 1985 at a different location [23] [24] | ||
Taihape | Ad-Deen Mosque Taihape Islamic Centre | 2014 | Claimed to be the highest mosque in New Zealand [25] [26] [27] | ||||
Whanganui | Whanganui East | Masjid-E-Bilal | 2003 | [28] | |||
Marlborough | Blenheim | Blenheim Central | Blenheim Masjid and Community Centre | 2022 | [29] | ||
Northland | Whangārei | Morningside | Northland Islamic Centre | [12] [30] | |||
Otago | Dunedin | Dunedin North | Al-Huda Mosque | 2000 | [31] [32] | ||
Dunedin | South Dunedin | Al-Maryam Islamic Centre | 2020 | [33] | |||
Queenstown | Queenstown Central | Queenstown Masjid | 2020 | [34] [35] [36] | |||
Southland | Invercargill | Hawthorndale | Southland Muslim Association Masjid | 2010 | Claimed to be the southernmost mosque in the world [37] [38] | ||
Taranaki | Hāwera | Hāwera Islamic Centre | [39] | ||||
New Plymouth | Hillsborough | Taranaki Islamic Centre | 2016 | [40] [41] | |||
Waikato | Taupō | Taupō Central | Taupo Islamic Centre | 2015 | [42] | ||
Wellington | Lower Hutt | Taitā | Lower Hutt Islamic Centre | 1997 | [43] [44] | ||
Wellington | Kilbirnie | Wellington Islamic Centre | Before 1999 | [45] [46] |
Region | City | Suburb | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Papua | Port Moresby | Hohola | Hohola Mosque | 2007 |
Island | City | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Tongatapu | Nukuʻalofa | Al-Khadeejah Mosque | 2010 |
Island | City | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
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Funafuti | Funafuti | Tuvalu Mosque | Ahmadiyya | Tuvalu's only mosque [47] [ better source needed ] |
Island | City | Name | Images | Year | Group | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Efate | Port Vila | Port Vila Grand Mosque | 1992 | Sunni | Vanuatu's first mosque |
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It has an urban population of 29,000.
Islam in New Zealand is a religious affiliation representing about 1.3% of the total population. Small numbers of Muslim immigrants from South Asia and eastern Europe settled in New Zealand from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Large-scale Muslim immigration began in the 1970s with the arrival of Fiji Indians, followed in the 1990s by refugees from various war-torn countries.
New Zealand Muslim Association (NZMA) established in 1950 is the oldest Islamic institution in New Zealand. The New Zealand Muslim Association (NZMA) was formed in the year 1950, with the objective to serve all Muslims brothers and sisters within New Zealand. The first chairman of NZMA was Marhum Suilman Ismail Bhikoo. He was instrumental in establishing a Muslim burial ground at Waikumete Cemetery in Glen Eden, West Auckland in 1966. Former presidents of the NZMA include Kosovo-born Mazhar Krasniqi and Nazmi Mehmeti from North Macedonia (1963). The longest serving Executive Committee member between 1956 and 1981 was Hajji Avdo Musovich (1919–2001), originally from Montenegro. NZMA is responsible for the five branches; Ponsonby mosque, Ranui mosque, Avondale Islamic Centre, Birkenhead Islamic Centre and Kelston Islamic Centre. More information can be found on the NZMA website: www.nzma.kiwi.nz
Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre (GLMCC), is a mosque in Birmingham. It has been a registered charity in England since 2008. The Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham.
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Abdul Rahim Rasheed was a Fijian-born Indian Muslim community leader and lawyer in New Zealand.
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The following lists events that happened during 2019 in New Zealand.
The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive mass shootings on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15 March 2019. They were committed by Brenton Tarrant who entered both mosques during Friday prayer, firstly at the Al Noor Mosque at 1:40 p.m. and later at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 p.m.
The Al Noor Mosque is a Sunni mosque in the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton in New Zealand. It was built between 1983 and 1985 by the Muslim Association of Canterbury, an organisation founded in 1977 that also manages the mosque building. It was the primary target of the Christchurch mosque shootings of 15 March 2019.
The Linwood Islamic Centre is a Sunni Islamic mosque in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand. The mosque opened in early 2018 on the grounds of the former Christchurch Bahai Centre and the building had most recently been the Linwood Community Centre. The building was formerly a Sunday School Hall in Highstead Road and was moved to Linwood in the late 1980s. It was the second mosque to open in Christchurch. It is owned by the Linwood Islamic Charitable Trust, which was founded in 2017.
The following lists events that happened during 2020 in New Zealand. One overarching event is the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 3 September 2021 at 14:40 NZST, eight people were injured in a mass stabbing at the LynnMall Countdown supermarket in New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand. The attacker, Ahamed Samsudeen, was being followed by police officers, who intervened during the attack and shot and killed him after he charged the officers. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident was being treated as terrorism and was "ISIS-inspired" according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. This was the second stabbing in less than four months to occur at a Countdown supermarket, the first being in Dunedin, and the first terrorist attack in New Zealand since the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019.
Philip Neville Arps is a New Zealand white supremacist best known for being jailed after publicly sharing the livestream of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.
The Lautoka Jame Masjid is an Islamic mosque in Lautoka, Fiji.
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