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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.
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. 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.
Press Release – Canterbury Museum
A new exhibition –
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community – which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New Zealanders opened at the weekend at Canterbury Museum.
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community highlights the mosque as the heart of Muslim communities, and the diversity of Islamic culture showcased through art and objects. The exhibition has been developed by the Museum in partnership with Christchurch Muslims who are keen to share with the wider community, knowledge and understanding of Islam, and the diversity of those who follow the faith.
Museum Director, Anthony Wright says the exhibition has a very positive focus. “Our hope is that in working with local Muslims we have created uplifting experience for our visitors, one that highlights the diversity of Islamic art, architecture and culture.
Monday, 14 December 2020, 9:38 am
A new exhibition –
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community
– which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New
Zealanders opened at the weekend at Canterbury
Museum.
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community
highlights the mosque as the heart of Muslim
communities, and the diversity of Islamic culture showcased
through art and objects. The exhibition has been developed
by the Museum in partnership with Christchurch Muslims who
are keen to share with the wider community, knowledge and
understanding of Islam, and the diversity of those who
follow the faith.
Museum Director, Anthony Wright says
the exhibition has a very positive focus. “Our hope is
Press Release – Canterbury Museum A new exhibition Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New Zealanders opened at the weekend at Canterbury Museum. Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community highlights the mosque as the heart of Muslim communities, …
A new exhibition –
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community – which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New Zealanders opened at the weekend at Canterbury Museum.
Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community highlights the mosque as the heart of Muslim communities, and the diversity of Islamic culture showcased through art and objects. The exhibition has been developed by the Museum in partnership with Christchurch Muslims who are keen to share with the wider community, knowledge and understanding of Islam, and the diversity of those who follow the faith.
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