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The Islamic community in Avondale, Auckland, reflects on Ramadan during the Covid lockdown last year and looks forward to being able to celebrate together this year.
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It is sometimes said that the first Muslims to arrive in New Zealand settled in Christchurch in 1854, when Mahomet and Mindia Wuzerah came from India with their sons Pero and Mero to work for John Cracroft Wilson in Cashmere.
Christchurch’s Al-Noor mosque opened in 1985, and was the second in the country.