The Sunshine Mosque is an Ottoman/Turkish-style mosque located in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The mosque contains 17 domes, a minaret, and a courtyard. The
use of local Australian bricks with a yellowish tone reflects an attempt of the Australian architect to ‘localise’ the architecture of an Ottoman-looking mosque. The building’s outside shell acts as a crossroads for local and international architectural discourses. The interiors of the Sunshine Mosque follow the same concepts of the original Blue Mosque, but in a more streamlined and synthesised form that represents the construction techniques and materials accessible in Australia at the time. The columns of the Sunshine Mosque are white and cylindrical, whereas those at the Blue Mosque are more elaborate and heavily ornamented with friezes and golden Arabic inscriptions on a blue background that surrounds their perimeter.
The mosque is owned by the Cyprus Turkish Islamic Community of Victoria. Today the Sunshine Mosque represents an achievement and a gift to the wider Australian community by the Turkish Cypriot community. To Muslims it is a place of worship and a meeting place, to non-Muslims it is a gift of Ottoman architecture which can be admired as they pass by the Ring Road to and from the city of Melbourne.
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