Queensland Religious Places



Paneta
Saibai Island 4875
1881
timber
Demolished
T Teske, Saibai; Island of the Torres Strait (1988), 38
1897
Replaced by new church
Paneta is a Samoan word for Morning Star
The church had a thatched roof with huge rafters. These rafters were hand hewn and adzed from the tough, durable timber of the wongai tree. The wongai timber was brought by canoe from the Papua mainland and an old village site at Kagar.

Location (-9.3801434, 142.619352)


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