Ahmed Skaka, originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia, was an Imam at the Adelaide Mosque. After World War II, in 1950, he emigrated to Australia by ship from Napoli, Italy to Melbourne, Victoria. The journey took 26 days and he arrived on the 26th January 1950. On arrival he was transferred to the Bonegilla Migrant Camp in rural Victoria. On the ship to Australia the passengers were mainly Italians, Romanians and Poles. In Bonegilla there were a only a few Russian and Romanian Muslims. By chance he discovered that there was a mosque in Adelaide from a newspaper report of the death and funeral of Gool Mahomet. At that stage there was a congregation of only two or three elderly Afghans. From then on Ahmed Skaka acted as an Imam of the mosque while continuing to work for Clipsal at Bowden. Only 7 pe