Many people still don't know Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar. This museum hopes to put the African island on the rock history map.
Zanzibari businessman Javed Jafferji is co-owner of the. Jafferji was a college student in London in the mid-1980s when he first became a fan."At that time, not many people knew [Mercury] was from Zanzibar," he says.
The Bulsara family were Parsis from India -- followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient Persian religion. At the time, there were some 300 members of the Parsi community in Zanzibar. Today, only a handful remain, and the temple has long been abandoned. Less than a decade later, Mercury formed Queen -- and went on to attain rock legend status. He never returned to his birthplace.In 2002, Jafferji opened a small souvenir shop called The Mercury House in a former home of the Bulsara family.Nearly two decades later, the release of the movie"Bohemian Rhapsody" inspired Jafferji to think big. A surprise visit to Zanzibar by Queen guitarist Brian May sealed the deal.
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