Victorian Mosque Open Day
Nathan LAMBERT (Preston) (13:20): Last Sunday was mosque open day, and I want to thank Tarek Khodr and Jamal Mohammed for their gracious hospitality at Preston Mosque and also Sam at the Albanian mosque for showing me and my daughter round even though we were quite late and he was trying to pack up. I do know that for some of the smaller mosques it is a bit of effort to open up on mosque open day and they might not get a lot of people through, but I think there is a huge amount of value in those face-to-face conversations and the chance for people to meet each other, especially in this modern era when so much is mediated through the internet and social media. I want to thank everyone involved in that annual statewide initiative.