Muslim History in New Zealand
The first Muslims living in New Zealand were 15 Chinese “Mahometans” living in the gold mining settlement of Dunstan, Otago, in April 1874 according to the government census. In the 1890s and 1900s several Punjabi and Gujarati Indian men arrived here, and from the 1930 and 1940s these men began to bring out their wives and families.
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