Broken Hill Mosque

A small corrugated-iron mosque at the northern edge of the town, painted white and green and easily missed if you do not know to look for it. It sits on the site of the original Afghan camel-drivers' camp, where camels were kept and looked after between supply runs out to the remote stations.

The mosque is generally locked but can be visited on Sundays when volunteers open the building and talk visitors through its history. The cemetery behind it has the graves of several of the original cameleers.

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The mosque was built in 1891 by Afghan cameleers — the men who drove the camel trains that hauled supplies across the inland deserts before the railways arrived. It is one of the oldest mosques in Australia and the only one in Broken Hill. The cameleers eventually gave way to motor transport in the 1920s, but a small community of their descendants still cares for the building.