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Lebanese Muslims form the core of Australia's Muslim Arab population, particularly in Sydney where most Arabs in Australia live. Approximately 3.4% of Sydney's population are Muslim. Approximately 4.2% of residents in Greater Melbourne are Muslim, [120] and Sydney Road in Brunswick and Coburg is sometimes called 'Little Lebanon'. [154]
The land for the mosque at Marsden Park (Sydney) was purchased in 1983. Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV laid the foundation stone on 30 September on his first visit to Australia in 1983. [1] The first missionaries, Mr. Shakil Ahmad Munir and his wife, Mrs. Naima Munir, came to Australia on 5 July 1985.
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.
It is a time for people to attend prayer services, put on their best clothes (referred to as bayramlık, often purchased just for the occasion), visit all their loved ones (such as relatives, neighbors, and friends), and pay their respects to the deceased with organised visits to cemeteries.
Dubai Police fire the Iftar Cannon by Burj Khalifa. Though the tradition is practiced today in most parts of the Arab world, the blast of the cannon was first used to inform the entire city of the time of Iftar, before the invention of accurate clocks and mass media. The cannon is first fired to herald the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan ...
Over time, the practice of iftar has evolved into banquets that may accommodate hundreds or even thousands of diners. [76] The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the largest mosque in the UAE, feeds up to thirty thousand people every night. [77] Some twelve thousand people attend iftar at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad. [citation needed]
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Lakemba Mosque was the second purpose-built mosque in Sydney and remains arguably Australia's most well-known and important mosque. While historically Muslims of Lebanese heritage constituted the majority of the congregation, today people of Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Somali and South-East Asian backgrounds also attend in significant numbers ...