 Over time, as the cameleers passed on or returned to their countries of origin, the mosque became unused and decrepit, until the post-World War II wave of migration to Australia.Muslims arriving from the state of Federal State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the then Yugoslavia and the newly independent Indonesia boosted the congregation.In 1950, Ahmed Skaka, who had trained as an imam in Sarajevo and enlisted in the Yugoslav Army before being imprisoned by the Nazis in Bosnia, migrated to Australia.