Case file · Sacred site
Marree mosque, the first in Australia
Afghan cameleers, Muslims mostly from British India and Afghanistan, built Australia's first mosque at Marree (then Hergott Springs), South Australia, around 1882; some sources date it to 1861.
1882 CE · -29.65, 138.06 · status: official
The account
The cameleers opened up the interior and married into Aboriginal families. Their mud-and-timber mosque was lost to the desert, and a replica was built on the site in 2003.