(1958 SLQ 2804-0037-0011 © Uniting Church of Australia Queensland Synod)
JG Ward Memorial Church | |
JG Ward Memorial Presbyterian Church | |
Mapoon 4874 | |
Presbyterian | |
1899 | |
timber, corrugated iron | |
Demolished | |
Ganter, German Missionaries in Australia, http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/qld-mission/mapoon-1891-1919 | |
1964 | |
Mapoon Mission was established by Moravian missionaires 1891 and transferred to the Presbyterian Church in 1919. Paton described the building in 1911: 'A beautiful building of corugated iron walls and roof. The timber was got by the natives from the bush. A verandah was along each side of the Church' Church destroyed as part of the removal of the Mapoon Mission community to Bamaga to facilicate mining on Mapoon |
(c. 1920 SLQ 31584)
(c. 1911, Paton, Glimpses of Mapoon, 12)