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

Related Concepts

• Christianity
• mission work in Victoria (c. 1899 - )
• Presbyterian Church in Western Australia
• temples

Related Corporate Bodies

• Chinese Church, Narrandera
• Chinese Mission Church, 123-129 Little Bourke St, Melbourne (Victoria)
• Christian Chinese Union of Victoria
• Presbyterian Mission Union (Melbourne)
• St David's Presbyterian Church Chinese Sunday School, Albury
• Wesleyan Chinese Mission Victoria

Related People

• Ah See, Philip
• Ah Tye, Samuel
• Ah Yoong
• Cheong, Cheok Hong (1851 - 1928)
• Cheong, James M.A. (1871 - 1941)
• Chin Ghin, David
• Ch'in Suen
• Ch'in Yeong
• Choi Ngarn
• Choi Toong
• Chum Gee, James
• Gee Chew, James
• Heung, Timothy
• Kwok, Paul
• Lee Wah, Peter
• Low, Mathew
• Mak Quong, Thomas
• Ning Poon
• Pang, James
• Tear Tack, James Lee
• Tsoy Fung
• Tsoy Ngan
• Tue Chung, James
• Young, Timothy
• Youngman, E.

Related Places

• Atherton Joss House (Queensland)
• Castlemaine temple (Victoria)
• Darwin's temple
• Emmaville joss house (New South Wales)
• See Yup Temple, South Melbourne (Victoria) (1856 - )

Archival Collections

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

• Papers of E.D.W.S. Donnison, with photographs and newscuttings connected with her son Laurence Donnison, 1870 - 1964, ML MSS 890/3; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].

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... ]
• Phillips, Walter, 'Seeking souls in the diggings: Christian missions to the Chinese on the Victorian goldfields', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 72, no. 1 & 2, 2001, pp. 86-104. [ 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://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/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

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Bible Lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne

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Photograph

Date

c. 1902

Place

Australia - Victoria - Melbourne

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Altar in Darwin temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1941

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Altar in Darwin's temple

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Photograph

Date

1941

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Ancestral altar

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Photograph

Date

c. 5 February 1911

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Sydney

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Ancestral tablets

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Photograph

Date

1920? - ?

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Ancestral tablets in Darwin's temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1915

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Atherton Joss House

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Photograph

Date

c. 1903 - c. 1910

Place

Australia - Queensland - Atherton

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Bringing the dragon (or lion?) out of a Chinese temple at New Years Festival

Type

Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Castlemaine temple

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Photograph

Date

1880s - 1960s

Place

Australia - Victoria - Castlemaine

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Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's

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Photograph

Date

c. 1914 - c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland

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Photograph

Place

Australia - Queensland - Atherton

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Chinese temple, Atherton, c.1911

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Photograph

Date

c. 1911

Place

Australia - Queensland - Atherton

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Chinese temple, Innisfail, early 1900s?

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Photograph

Date

c. 1890 - c. 1910

Place

Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)

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Darwin temple altar

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Photograph

Date

1915 - 1930

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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Darwin's temple altar

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Photograph

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c. 1928 - c. 1931

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Darwin's temple altar against corrogated iron wall

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Photograph

Date

c. 1928 - c. 1931

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903

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Photograph

Date

1903

Place

Australia - Queensland - Townsville

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Detail of temple altar

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Photograph

Date

- 1900

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Entrance to Cairns temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Queensland - Cairns

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Entrance to Darwin's temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Entrance, fisherman's temple with prayer furnace

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach

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Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900

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Photograph

Date

c. 1900

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera

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Father James Cheong

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Photograph

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Fisherman's temple and residences

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach

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Grave with food offerings, including a roast pig

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Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of Darwin temple

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Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of Darwin temple showing detail of altar

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Photograph

Date

c. 1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of Darwin's temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1920 - c. 1924

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900

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Photograph

Date

c. 1890 - 1920?

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Narrandera

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Interior ornament, Chinese temple, Darwin

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Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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James and Benjamin Cheong with two unidentified ministers

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Photograph

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James Cheong with unidentified group including a nun

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Photograph

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Mah Buk infront of Darwin bronze fretted temple doors

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Photograph

Date

1 October 1942

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Methodist Church, Chinese and buffalos

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Knuckey Street

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Painted portrait of unidentified man in Darwin's temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1915

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Palanquin used in New Year ceremonies inside Chinese temple, Darwin

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Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Palm Sunday gathering outside a church

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Photograph

Date

1927?

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Pine Creek temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1910

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek

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Presbyterian Chinese Mission School Teachers Meeting, Perth

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Photograph

Date

1898

Place

Australia - Western Australia - Perth

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Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin

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Photograph

Date

c. 1895

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Side view of Darwin temple

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Photograph

Date

1930s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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St David's Presbyterian Church Chinese Sunday School, Albury

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Photograph

Date

c. 1900

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Albury

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Temple idol

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Photograph

Date

1920s - ?

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Temple idol

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Photograph

Date

c. 1 January 1936

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Two unidentified children on beach with fisherman's temple behind

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Photograph

Date

- 1925

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach

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Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius

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Photograph

Date

c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Sydney

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Unidentified class of adult males at Sunday school

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Photograph

Place

Australia - New South Wales - Tumut

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Unidentified guilded idol in Darwin Chinese Temple

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Photograph

Date

c. 1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Unidentified man sitting in temple

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Photograph

Date

1930s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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

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