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LakembaLakemba is a Sydney suburb with a large Lebanese Muslim community and mosque. This has led to it also being known unofficially as Lebkemba. It also has a large well established Greek Community with Greek Orthodox Club and nearby large Greek Orthodox Church. Residents also include people from many parts of the world including Sierra Leone, Eastern European countries (especially following the fall of communism), South-East Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and islanders (eg Fijian, Tongan and Maori). HISTORY The first inhabitants of Lakemba and surrounding areas were Australian Aboriginals who arrived about 40,000 years ago. At the time of British settlement in 1788 the inhabitants were Aborigines of the Darug language group (a way of defining tribe) and they called themselves, and were known as Kuri or Koori. Land grants by the new Colonial Government began in Lakemba about 1810. The soil is clay based on Wianamatta shale and is the Eastern edge of the great Cumberland Plain. The topography is low rolling hills and drains to the Cooks River which is tidal up to the North Eastern edge of Lakemba. Benjamin Taylor had a 22 hectare property in the 1880s. He named his property "Lakeba" (pronounced Lakemba) after an island in the Lau Island group of Fiji where his second wife's grandparents Rev and Mrs Cross were missionaries from 1835. One of the original streets is Oneata Street, named after a small Fijian Island close to Lakeba. The suburb is on the railway line from Sydney Central to Bankstown. The railway line was built to Belmore in 1895 and extended to and beyond Lakemba in 1909. The station was named after the neighbouring house of Benjamin Taylor who was variously Town Clerk, Alderman and Mayor of Canterbury Council, which had Lakemba in its Municipality boundary. Canterbury is now a City within the Sydney Metropolitan Area. The Imam of the Lakemba Mosque, Sheik Taj El-Din al Hilaly, styles himself "Grand Mufti of Australia".
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