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
There were 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.
Source: Pine Creek National Trust Museum
For images of Pine Creek, Darwin and Brock's Creek Temples see:
The Queenslander, Saturday 18 April 1925, p.28.

Altar, Pine Creek Joss Hse
Image Courtesy of: The Queenslander, 18 April 1925, p.28.

Pine Creek Joss House
Image Courtesy of: National Library of Australia

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