Beechworth Joss House
Date Published
: Temples / Joss House, Mining (gold fields)
: Ovens Goldfields
: Beechworth
: 1867
Beechworth had two Joss Houses, with both apparently destroyed by fire by 1904. [1]
Decorative panel, Beechworth Joss House
The Chinese Camp at Beechworth.
CONSECRATION OF A JOSS-HOUSE.
By John Cope Garnett.
A brick building about to be dedicated to Chang Kow Choo Szee—the spelling is mine, but does not at all express the nasal qualities of this divinity—had just been completed, and looked gaudy in its adornments of brilliant colours and fresh paint.
The temple is a neat and substantia brick building, being about twenty-five feet deep by fourteen or fifteen feet frontage.
Chinese camp
Beechworth Chinese town
Temple St, Beechworth
Image: Temple St, the exact location of the Joss House is unknown.
[1] The Argus, Thursday 27 February 1902, p.6 & The Daily News, Monday 5 December 1904, p.4.
