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Baha'i House of Worship, Mona Vale 1963

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Baha'i House of Worship, Mona Vale 1963

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[A1200, L45264]

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Baha'i House of Worship

Baha'i faith was brought to Australia in 1920 by Clara and Hyde Dunn. Sydney's Baha'i house of worship was designed by John Brogan and built on the highest point above the northern beaches of Sydney.

Baha'i faith

Religious building

Baha'i House of Worship

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Nine-sided Baha'i temple sited high above Sydney's northern beaches.

Mona Vale

North-eastern residential and commercial beachside suburb on land granted to Robert Campbell (1769-1846) and possibly named after a place in his native Scotland. It was a market gardening area, specialising in tomatoes grown in glasshouses, before residential development began after the Second World War.

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