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Lautoka Jame Masjid

The Lautoka Jame Masjid, also known as the Lautoka Jamia Masjid, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Lautoka, in the Ba Province, in the Western Division of Fiji.

Overview

In 1928, it was captured that a mosque was under construction in Lautoka.

The current building, Fiji's largest mosque, is a three storey building, completed in 2019, that caters for 4,000 worshippers. It is known for its arched doors and white marble structure.

Musa Vali Suleman Patel, served as imam of the mosque for nearly 30 years. Patel was murdered in the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, in New Zealand. In 2020, Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited the mosque and, as part of a ceremony, unveiled a plaque in honour of Patel and the other two Fijians killed in the Christchurch shooting.

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