Cairns and District Chinese Association Inc. (CADCAI)

The Cairns and District Chinese Association Inc. (CADCAI) is custodian of one of the nation’s hidden treasures, the Cairns Lit Sung Goong (LSG) Temple collection. 

This nationally significant collection of over 240 artefacts from the Lit Sung Goong temple which operated in Cairns between 1886 and 1966 is an outstanding example of the material culture of Chinese Australian religious practices, and one of the few tangible links to a flourishing Chinese community in the region more than a century ago.