Queensland Religious Places
(c. 1934 SLQ 42764)
| St Mark's Anglican Church | |
| Church Street, Badu 4875 | |
| Anglican | |
| 1935 | |
| concrete | |
| Open | |
| https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/queensland-places-st-marks-church-badu; Queenslander, 18 Jan 1939 | |
| 700 | |
| £2000 | |
| St Mark’s was designed to accommodate around 700 people, with construction commencing in late 1933 and being completed some two years later, at a cost of some two thousand pounds, raised within the island community. The new church was formally dedicated by the Reverend Stephen Davies, Bishop of Carpentaria, on 12 January 1936. Its internal features were also designed or created by local community members and included an altar crucifix made of tortoise shell as well as a large cross made from local bloodwood. There were also other church ornaments made from pearl shell and dugong ivory. (SLQ) |
(Queenslander 18 Jan 1939)