Treasure
Pine Creek Joss House
Date Published
: Temple/Joss House (former site)
: Temples / Joss House, Mining (gold fields)
: Northern Territory
: Pine Creek
: c.1880
: Temples / Joss House, Mining (gold fields)
: Northern Territory
: Pine Creek
: c.1880
Possibly two temples at Pine Creek
Pine Creek Temple roof ornament
Image Courtesy of: Pine Creek National Trust Museum
Metal ornament from the roof of the Chinese Temple in Pine Creek
Date: 1880's
A large community of Chinese lived at Pine Creek in the 1880's and up until the 1930's. This is all that remains of the Joss House.
https://aumuseums.com/nt/northern-territory/pine-creek-national-trust-museum#google_vignette
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/25101591
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/182672922
Altar, Pine Creek Joss Hse
Image Courtesy of: The Queenslander, 18 April 1925, p.28.
Pine Creek Joss House
Image Courtesy of: NLA
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