Tin mining temples, Tasmania
Date Published
: Temples / Joss House, Mining (tin)
: Northeast Tasmania
: Weldborough
: 1870 to 1930
As the community of tin miners declined there was a gradual closure of the temples in Northeast Tasmania and their contents are now part of the Guan Yin Temple Launceston.
Garibaldi, Joss House
"Their main centres, where they erected Joss houses, were Moorina and Weldborough, where many of them lived, also at Garribaldi there was another large camp and Joss House."
The Cornwall Chronicle, 25 September 1872, p.2.
"As I returned to Branxholm I called in at Fancy Flat, the Chinese camp, it is quite a village. Ah Moy has a store there, and there is also a Chinese boot and shoe maker. Whang Pow, the Chinese missionary, pays Fancy Flat monthly visits to enlighten the Celestials, but with what success I cannot tell." AKA Ruby Flat
Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1886, p.3.
Possible Tasmanian Joss Houses according to inscriptions of artifacts in QVMAG
Branxholm
Moorina
Gladstone
Scottsdale
Garibaldi Joss House
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