Islam in New Zealand

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Al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch
Muslim boy in Canterbury Mosque 2007

The Islam in New Zealand is a relatively small and new religious community.

The first Muslim migrants were Chinese prospectors in the 1870s. Some Muslim immigrants from India and political refugees from communist Eastern Europe (from Albania and what was then Yugoslavia ) settled in the years 1900 to 1960. In the 1990s, many more Muslim immigrants joined them.

The first Islamic organization, the New Zealand Muslim Association , was founded in Auckland in 1950 . They built the first Islamic house in 1959. In 1979 they built the first mosque in all of New Zealand .

In 1979 the first nationwide Islamic organization, the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand , was protected by law. Mazhar Krasniqi , born in Pristina , Kosovo in 1931 , was the first president. He headed the New Zealand Muslim Association in the 1970s and 1980s. On December 31, 2002, the Governor General of New Zealand presented him with an Award for Special Merit, which he received on April 4, 2003 in Wellington.

The Muslim Association of Canterbury was founded in 1977. Between 1984 and 1985 she built the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch , the first mosque on the South Island .

Today over 36,000 Muslims live in New Zealand . Many are immigrants and refugees, plus a few thousand converts.

On March 15, 2019, an attack on two mosques in Christchurch killed 41 people in the Al Noor Mosque and another seven Muslims in the Linwood Islamic Center .

literature

  • Abdullah Drury: Islam in New Zealand: The First Mosque. (Christchurch, 2007) ISBN 978-0-473-12249-2
  • Abdullah Drury: A time for Muslims to examine faith. in The Nelson Mail (August 5, 2008), p.9.
  • Abdullah Drury: A Tribute to the Illyrian Pioneers. in Al Mujaddid (March 2002 - Muharram 1423), Vol. 1, No. 16, p. 10.
  • Abdullah Drury: Crucial element locked in past. in The New Zealand Herald (September 25, 2007).
  • Abdullah Drury: Halal certification of growing value. in The Otago Daily Times (April 27, 2007), p.30.
  • Abdullah Drury: Home country doctrine splits once-unified local Muslims. in The New Zealand Herald (July 12, 2006).
  • Abdullah Drury: Integration effort needed. in The Press (August 2, 2005), p.5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masjid An-Nur in Riccarton, Canterbury ( English ) Salatomatic - your guide to mosques & Islamic schools. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Tessa Akerman: Linwood mosque reflects a growing Muslim community ( English ) In: Maclean's . March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Frances Morton, Edoardo Liotta, James Borrowdale: One of New Zealand's "Darkest Days": Terrorism in Christchurch ( English March) 15th 2019. Retrieved on 16 March.
  4. ↑ Christchurch gets its second mosque (English) . In: The Indian Weekender , March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2019. 
  5. ↑ New Zealand shootings: What we know so far ( English ) Mclean's . March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2019 Template: FormatDate / Maintenance / 0.