Queensland Religious Places



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(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

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(c. 1920 SLQ 31584)


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(c. 1911, Paton, Glimpses of Mapoon, 12)


Location (-11.966080, 141.894)


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