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Ebenezer Church c1935

Ebenezer Church c1935

By

Harold Cazneaux

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2058020 / PXD 806/50]

(Mitchell Library)

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Christian church architecture Death and dying in nineteenth century Sydney

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Cemeteries Presbyterian Religious building Uniting

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Ebenezer Uniting Church

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Ebenezer Ebenezer Uniting cemetery Portland Head

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Cazneaux, Harold

State Library of New South Wales

Christian church architecture

Church architecture in Sydney has at times been the most significant and exceptional in the architecture of Sydney. At other times, church denominations have settled on continuing a successful type, seeking to make a noticeable character across the region. As immigrants imported their traditions, they adapted to the materials and surroundings of the new country.

Death and dying in nineteenth century Sydney

In the newly settled colony, cemeteries were an important cultural institution in which the social order could be established and a person's identity within the community could be defined. Through the trappings of the funeral, statements of status, class and religion were constructed and inscribed upon the cemetery landscape.

Presbyterian

Religious building

Uniting

Cemeteries

Ebenezer Uniting Church

Oldest church building in Australia which was built as a Presbyterian chapel between 1809 and 1817 by free settlers.

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Ebenezer Uniting cemetery

The first burial at the Ebenezer church was in 1812. Also known as the Portland Head burial grounds.

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Ebenezer

North-western rural suburb on western bank of the Hawkesbury River. Site of the oldest church in Australia, built in 1808, its Biblical name means 'stone of help'.

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Portland Head

Area on the Hawkesbury River that includes the suburb of Ebenezer.

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