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Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque

mosque in Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3408748
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The Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الرسول الاعظم, romanized: Masjid Al-Rasool AlAdham) is a Shia Islam mosque located in Bankstown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The mosque is supervised by Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari. The mosque generally promotes Shi'a teachings and is attended almost exclusively by Shi'a worshipers.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Al-Rasool, Al-A'dham and Mosque can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.