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Maitland Bar Joss House

Date Published

:  Temple/Joss House (former site)
:  Temples / Joss House
:  Central West (NSW)
:  Maitland Bar
:  c.1865

"Some days since the Chinese residing in the neighborhood of the murders held a great prayer and invocation meeting in the temple of Joss, concluding with casting lots among themselves,"

The Age, 13 July 1868, p.3. 

"At one end of the village, in a detached situation, is a Joss House, or heathen place of worship, and at the other end thereof, somewhat closer to their dwellings, there is a gambling house."

Empire, 25 July 1872, p.4.