Afghan Mosque in Bourke Cemetery (Bourke). Historic mosque in the cemetery, Bourke, NSW. In the 19th and early 20th centuries camels were used extensively in outback Australia, and many of the camel keepers were Afghans. This humble mosque remains as a reminder of the important part they played in the development of modern Australia. Another early Afghan-Australian mosque survives in the mining city of Broken Hill.
The mosque consists of a small house in the middle of the fields and a cemetery in NSW. It is made out of corrugated metal and has only one entrance. The Coolibah’s of Bourke cemetery guard, a fascination piece of Australia’s frontier history. An hour spent browsing the inscriptions will take you back into a world of bushrangers and drovers, cameleers and river boat men, lost children and local heroes. Bourke’s cemetery predates the town.
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