The Deer Park Mosque is a

mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...

located in the

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north-western suburb of Deer Park, in

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. The mosque is supervised by the Australian Islamic Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Inc.

History

The roots of the Deer Park Mosque date to the 1960s when the first Bosnian Muslims in Victoria gathered and established a multi-ethnic Islamic community in and . The Deer Park Mosque was built in 1993 as the religious focal point for the Bosnian community in Melbourne. The Deer Park Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Australia.

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