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Indonesian Muslims gathered outside Marrickville Community Centre at the end of Ramadan 1999

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Immig, John

National Library of Australia

Muslims in Sydney

Muslims have been a presence in Sydney since the eighteenth century, despite the immigration restrictions of the White Australia Policy. Half of all Australia's Muslims now live in Sydney, forming a culturally and ethnically diverse community that flourishes, even amidst outbursts of prejudice from other residents of multicultural Sydney.

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Addison Road Community Centre

The Addison Road Community Centre is a community meeting-place in Marrickville, in the heart Sydney's Inner West, on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. The site was used as an Army Depot from the middle of World War I and became a community centre in 1976. It is home to organisations, artists, galleries, a theatre, a radio station, organic gardens and a self-guided Heritage Trail. The centre is cared for and managed by the Addison Road Community Centre Organisation (ARCCO), creating affordable spaces for NGOs, community groups and artists, and as a base for ARCCO's own community development programs in the arts, multiculturalism, environment, social justice and history. The centre is a locally listed Heritage Item that preserves remnant open space from its time as a 19th century dairy and market garden, dozens of buildings from its period of military use and buildings, artworks and additions made since its incarnation as a vibrant community centre, as well as several magnificent trees.

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Marrickville

Inner-western residential suburb with an industrial heritage on the Cooks River, named after the Marrick estate of Thomas Chalder which was subdivided in 1855. The post-Second World War period saw the influx of mainly non-English speaking people, attracted by the availability of factory work and cheap housing.

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