Memorial, Sandgate Cemetery
Date Published
: memorials, cemetery sections, Chinese
: Hunter Valley (NSW)
: Newcastle
: 1924
Called a "Joss House" this construction in Sandgate Cemetery Newcastle appears to have been a memorial to the departed.
Memorial, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorial, Sandgate Cemetery
Apparently erected in 1924 this memorial to the Chinese departed no longer exsists. It was reported erroneously to be a "Joss House".
The Newcastle Sun, 21 October 1924, p.1.
A few days later this correction appeared: "CHINESE CHAPEL The Chinese building in the Sandgale cemetery, states Mr. Way Lee Yim, of 438 King-street, is not a joss-house, but a memorial chapel. The bier of stone, he says, is used in the Eastern manner for the laying on of food and refreshments on the course of the memorial ceremony. The name of the builders is the Goone Yik Tong Society, of Newcastle."
