Return from West Terrace Cemetery

The corollary to what goes up must come down is what goes out must come back. The walk was already over two miles when we departed West Terrace Cemetery.

There is always a new route.  We'll return to the nearest north-south road to our apartment: Morphett Street. To get there we take Sturt Street. One of the most annoying things about Adelaide, and consider what a great place it is if this is one of the 'most annoying', is that the east-west roads within the CBD, have different names for the east side and the west side. If you follow Sturt across town, it turns into Halifax and eventually takes you within a half block of our old home.

We're passing restaurants that have gotten creative during the shutdown and are now offering take-out. A few appear worthy of a later look. There are some interesting looking new buildings.

I spy four towering white columns and they appear to be the minarets of a mosque.  But are they big enough to be minarets.  They're not the big ones that are climbed to call people to prayer like those in Istanbul.  I'm off to investigate.

I've come across the oldest mosque in Australia.  This is the first time we've wandered the southwest neighborhoods.

 

The Central Adelaide Mosque, also known as Adelaide City Mosque or Adelaide Mosque, and formerly known as the Afghan Chapel, is a mosque located in Adelaide, South Australia. The mosque was built in 1888–1889, with its four distinctive minarets added in 1903, and is the oldest permanent mosque in Australia. Located in Little Gilbert Street in the south-west corner of the Adelaide city centre, the mosque was originally built to accommodate the spiritual needs of "Afghan" cameleers and traders coming in after working in South Australia's northern regions. After the congregation dwindled and the mosque fell into disrepair in the early 20th century, it took on a new lease of life with post-World War II Muslim migration, and has since been thriving.
It's been our longest walk to date: 3.8 miles