Braidwood Joss House
Date Published
: Temples / Joss House, Mining (gold fields)
: Snowy Mountains
: Braidwood
: 1864 to c.1920
"Chinese Joss House.-A new Chinese Joss House has for some time been opened in Braidwood, in the premises (the property of Mr. Weaver) recently occupied by Mr. J. L. Moriarty, of Wallace-street. Tbe temple is also occupied as a Celestial lodglng-house, ..."
Braidwood Joss House
"The chief object of attraction, so to speak, is the altar-piece. A benignly celestial-looking individual, dressed in Chinese Imperial costume, is painted at the back of an ornamental wooden niche with carved spandrils and other accessories, sup- ported by a couple of amiable-looking personages, apparently of the rank of mandarins, the whole surmounted by an elegantly designed canopy of gold leaf and colors, with minute representation of birds and other enrichments. This, from the inscription in front of the wood- work, we should take to be Kou-Fu-Tse, the said inscripion being three elaborately worked Chinese characters gilded in relief. "
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 23 August 1864, p.3.
“Mr. J Soidol is reported to be on good gold in a claim near the old Chinese joss house."
