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Altar at Chinese temple at Ironbark, Bendigo, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Chinese Temple (Joss House), 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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'Chinese joss house', courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill', 7 July 1875, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Chinese temple at Ironbark (near Bendigo), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Joss House, Breakfast Creek, 1886, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Interior of Chinese temple at Ironbark, Bendigo, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Chinese Temple (Joss House), 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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[Joss House, Raglan Street, South Melbourne], c. 1869 - c. 1873, by American & Australasian Photographic Company (Sydney, N.S.W.) fl. 1869-1873, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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Chinese Joss House and temple, 1939, by Hodder, Ivan, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Alternative Names

joss houses (also used)

Related Concepts

religion

Related People

Mah Buk

Related Places

Archival Collections

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

Melbourne and Shipping, PIC/3392 LOC Album 963; National Library of Australia - Picture collection. Details

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

Grimwade, Gordon, Lit Sung Goong: Chinese Religious Practices in Cairns, North Queensland, Cairns Museum, 1985. Details
Kok, Hu Jin, Chinese Temples in Australia: Hall of the Ranking Sages, Darwin, Northern Territory, Chinese Temples in Australia, vol. 4, Bendigo Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Victoria, 2005. Details
Russell, Bruce, Mongarlowe and the Little River Goldfields, Braidwood and District Historical Society, Braidwood, 1989. Details
Stephen, Ann, The Lions of Retreat Street: A Chinese Temple in Inner Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing and Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1997. Details

Journal articles

Grimwade, Gordon, 'A sense of harmony - Feng shui at Atherton Chinese temple', National Trust Queensland Journal, February, pp. 10-11. Details
Grimwade, Gordon, 'Gold, gardens, temples and feasts: Chinese temple, Croydon, Queensland', Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 21, 2003, pp. 1-8. 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

Grimwade, Gordon, 'Lit Sung Goong', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of Social Sciences, WAIT (now Curtin University, 1982. Details

Webpages

Museum and Gallery Services Queensland (eds), Innisfail Friends of the Temple. Also available at http://www.magsq.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=731. Details

Online Resources

''Joss houses'', in Golden Threads Exhibiton website, http://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/goldenthreads/exhibition/joss.asp. Details
Golden Threads, Site: Emmaville Joss House, People and Collections Database, Golden Threads project, http://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/goldenthreads/collections/recordCSites.asp?ID=24. Details
Golden Threads, photographs (2), interior and exterior of Emmaville joss house, taken by Robert Newby Kirk, 1899, People and Collections database, Golden Threads project, http://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/goldenthreads/collections/recordCObject.asp?ID=343. Details
Penny, Benjamin, An immigrant Chinese sea god in Australia: The Chinese background to Sydney's Retreat Street Temple, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, vol. 2, 2008, 54-81 pp, http://chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2008/54CSDS2008_Ch3_Penny.pdf. Details

See also

'Thong Keat Har, 'Joss houses of Melbourne, Victoria', BArch 4th year project, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1962', Thesis. Details
'Our cameraman's walkabout', Walkabout, 1 January 1936. Details
Chee, Suzanne & Tse, Angus, 'Yiu Ming Temple', 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. 104-111. Details
Hill, Ernestine, 'The Dragon doors of Pan Ku', Walkabout, vol. 8, no. 12, 1 October 1942, pp. 4-8. Details
Miller, G. and Miller, S., Of Rascals and Rusty Relics: An Introduction to North-East Tasmania, OBM, Hobart, 1979. Details
Strutton, S, 'Chinese tracks through the north', Walkabout, 1 July 1942, p. 31. Details
Winter, Wilfred, 'Burnie's Chinese', 31 January 1976, p. 14. Details

Images

Title: Altar at Chinese temple in Ironbark (Bendigo)
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark; Details

Title: Altar in Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: 'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill'
Type: Illustration
Date: 1875
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: 'Chinese joss house'
Type: Illustration
Place: Australia - Queensland - Breakfast Creek; Details

Title: 'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill'
Type: Illustration
Date: 7 July 1875
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: Chinese temple at Ironbark (near Bendigo)
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Breakfast Creek, 1886
Type: Photograph
Date: 1886
Place: Australia - Queensland - Breakfast Creek; Details

Title: Interior of Chinese temple at Ironbark, Bendigo
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst); Details

Title: Interior view of the Woods Street temple with streamers
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1929
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: See Yup Society temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1869 - c. 1873
Place: australia - Victoria- Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

See also

Title: Altar and interior of Darwin temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1939
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Altar at Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1940
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Altar at Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1940s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Altar at Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1908 - c. 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

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: Altar in Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Altar in Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1940
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

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

Title: Altar of Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1908 - c. 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Ancestral tablets
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920? - ?
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Ancestral tablets in Darwin's temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Ballarat Chinese temple and Kuomintang Hall in Main St, Ballarat
Type: Photograph
Date: 1955
Place: Australia - Victoria - Ballarat - Main Street; Details

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

Title: Chinese lion outside Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Chinese temple Main street, Ballarat
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1955
Place: Australia - Victoria - Ballarat - Main Street; 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: Close view of the Darwin temple altar and decorations
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1908 - c. 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; 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: Detail of temple altar
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Dorothy (Dolly) Yuen Ng standing outside the Chinese Temple, Darwin, dressed in 'Princess of the Float' costume
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1926
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Entrance of one of the two temples in Cairns
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; 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: Entrance to the temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1925
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Entrance, fisherman's temple with prayer furnace
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach; 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: Hall west of main hall in South Melbourne temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1940
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: Interior of Darwin temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Interior of Darwin temple
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 Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1908 - 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

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

Title: Joss house, South Melbourne, Victoria
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880s -
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne - Raglin Street; Details

Title: Mah Buk infront of Darwin bronze fretted temple doors
Type: Photograph
Date: 1 October 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Mon Cham of Pine Creek standing in the doorway of Chinese temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?; Details

Title: Painted portrait of unidentified man in Darwin's temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); 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: Pine Creek temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; 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: South Melbourne joss house, 1940
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1940
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: Stone lion
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1946
Place: Australia - Northern Territory; Details

Title: Temple altar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1960
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Temple idol
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s - ?
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

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

Title: Temple priest, Tingha, late 19th/early 20th century
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880s - 1920s
Place: Australia - New South Wales - New England - Tingha; Details

Title: Temple shown in aerial photograph of Mongarlowe, NSW
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Mongarlowe; Details

Title: Three men outside Garibaldi temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914 - c. 1918
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Garibaldi; Details

Title: Three unidentified men standing with stone lion
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1959
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek - Burnside Station; Details

Title: Two servicemen examining stone lions outside a temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1939 - c. 1945
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek; 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: 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

Title: Weldborough temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough; Details

Created: 18 March 2004, Last modified: 22 July 2005