Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia

Skip to content

Concept

Main site navigation

religion

Browse and search site

Concept

Quick Search

Browse Subjects

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Skip to

Gallery

Atherton Joss House, c. 1903 - c. 1910, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
Details
Chinese festival, Darwin, 1922, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
Details
Chinese procession., 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
Details
Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
Details
Altar in the Chinese Temple, 1915 - 1930, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
Details
Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
Details
Chinese Temple pre 1900, - 1900, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
Details
Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900, c. 1900, courtesy of Golden Threads project.
Details
Father James Cheong, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
Details
Chinese Temple, Darwin, 1922, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
Details

Related Concepts

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

Related Places

Published Resources

Books

Ah Ket, Toylaan, Chinese Religious Practice in Sydney: Changes in Traditions in the 20th Century Resulting from encounter with Australian culture and Chritianity, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, 1999. [ Details... ]
Stephen, Ann, The Lions of Retreat Street: A Chinese Temple in Inner Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing and Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1997. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

Austin, Denise A., 'Citizens of heaven: Overseas Chinese christians during Australian federation', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 75-88. [ Details... ]
Lim, Gladys, 'The Chinese in Alexandria New South Wales and the Yiu Ming Temple', Locality, Centre for Community History, University of NSW, vol. 11, no. 2, 2001, pp. 39-40. [ Details... ]

Theses

Allen, Margaret T. (Toylaan Ah Ket), 'Chinese religion, Sydney, NSW in the 20th century: Changes resulting from encounter with Australian culture and christianity', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of Religious Studies, University of Sydney, 1981. [ Details... ]
Austin, Denise A, ''Kingdom-minded' people: Christian identity and the contributions of Chinese business Christians', PhD thesis, Department of History, School of History, Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of Queensland, 2005. [ Details... ]
Welch, Ian H, 'Pariahs and outcasts: Christian missions to the Chinese in Victoria in the nineteenth century', MA thesis, Monash University, 1980. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

''Joss houses'', in Golden Threads Exhibiton website, http://amol.org.au/goldenthreads/exhibition/joss.asp. [ Details... ]

See also

Ah Ket, Toylaan, 'Confucian to Christian but always Chinese: Chinese religious practice in Sydney, 1880-1980', in Kee Pookong, Ho Chooi-hon, Paul Macgregor & Gary Presland (ed.), Chinese in Oceania, Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands; Chinese Museum; Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 58-64. [ Details... ]
Bruce, Robert, '[illustration: 'Chinese rites at the graves of their countrymen']', Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers, 10 September. [ Details... ]
Johnstone, S.M., Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania, Geo. B. Philip & Son, Sydney, 1925. [ Details... ]

Images

Title: Bible Lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

See also

Title: Altar in Darwin temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1941
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Altar in Darwin's temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1941
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Ancestral altar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Atherton Joss House
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1903 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Bringing the dragon (or lion?) out of a Chinese temple at New Years Festival
Type: Photograph
Date: 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Castlemaine temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880s - 1960s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Castlemaine; Details

Title: Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914 - c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Atherton, c.1911
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1911
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Innisfail, early 1900s?
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Darwin temple altar
Type: Photograph
Date: 1915 - 1930
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Darwin's temple altar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Darwin's temple altar against corrogated iron wall
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Detail of temple altar
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Entrance to Cairns temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Entrance to Darwin's temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera; Details

Title: Father James Cheong
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Fisherman's temple and residences
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach; Details

Title: Grave with food offerings, including a roast pig
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Interior of Darwin temple showing detail of altar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Interior of Darwin's temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1920 - c. 1924
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Interior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890 - 1920?
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera; Details

Title: Interior ornament, Chinese temple, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: James and Benjamin Cheong with two unidentified ministers
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: James Cheong with unidentified group including a nun
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Methodist Church, Chinese and buffalos
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Knuckey Street; Details

Title: Palanquin used in New Year ceremonies inside Chinese temple, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Palm Sunday gathering outside a church
Type: Photograph
Date: 1927?; Details

Title: Pine Creek temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: Presbyterian Chinese Mission School Teachers Meeting, Perth
Type: Photograph
Date: 1898
Place: Australia - Western Australia - Perth; Details

Title: Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1895
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Side view of Darwin temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: St David's Presbyterian Church Chinese Sunday School, Albury
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Albury; Details

Title: Temple idol
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1 January 1936
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Two unidentified children on beach with fisherman's temple behind
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1925
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach; Details

Title: Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Unidentified class of adult males at Sunday school
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Tumut; Details

Title: Unidentified guilded idol in Darwin Chinese Temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1922
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified man sitting in temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005