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Wayside Chapel
The Federal Independent
Australian Aborigines Mission
Australian Coptic Association
Blue Ribbon Gospel Army
Christian Endeavour Union
Credo
Eternity Christian Church
FamilyVoice Australia
Hillsong church
House of David community North Ryde
New South Wales Council of Churches
Religious Society of Friends
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Young Men's Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Association
The YMCA Building, Pitt Street c1930
Aboriginal people with Mrs Long and Mrs Cook at La Perouse, Christmas 1903
Eastcoast City Church, Caringbah 2008
La Perouse Aborigines' Mission: music at the annual outdoor rally of the United Aborigines' Mission 26 January 1931
Wedding at the Chapel at Hillsong church, Baulkham Hills 2007

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Christianity

Wayside Chapel

founded by Tedd Noffs, the Wayside Chapel has been a landmark in Kings Cross since 1963, helping locals and visitors and creating several organisations active in drug rehabilitation, life education and other social reform.

The Federal Independent

Journal of applied Christianity which strongly opposed conscription and Australia's involvement in World War I.

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Australian Aborigines Mission

Association formed in 1894 to teach gospel to aborigines.

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Australian Coptic Association

Association of Coptic Christians formed to oppose the segregation and injustice suffered by their brethren in Egypt.

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Army

School of gospel temperance which had branches in Australia, England and the United States of America.

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Christian Endeavour Union

Evangelical religious group which existed in several suburbs including Petersham and Ashfield from the 1890s.

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Credo

Christian student group at the UTS Sydney who are multicultural, inter-denominational and inter-faculty.

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Eternity Christian Church

Apostolic church.

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FamilyVoice Australia

Organisation promoting Christian family values which was founded in Adelaide.It has lobbied against pornography and euthanasia and opposes same sex marriage and same sex couple adopting.

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Hillsong church

Pentecostal megachurch begun in 1983 as the Hills Christian Life Centre in Baulkham Hills. It later merged with Sydney Christian Life Centre at Waterloo.

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House of David community North Ryde

Religious community which from about 1920 operated market gardens, a poultry farm, general store, picnic grounds etc. called Eden Park.

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New South Wales Council of Churches

Umbrella organisation representing seven evangelical Christian denominations.

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Religious Society of Friends

Religious society which began in 17th century Britain with the teachings of George Fox, an itinerant preacher, and which has spread to most regions in the world including Australia in 1832. A Christian denomination, it tries to avoid creeds and hierarchical structures.

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

Women's movement begun in the United States of America which strove to reduce the destructive power of alcohol in the community. It continues to promote a drug free lifestyle and Christian values.

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Young Men's Christian Association

The YMCA is a worldwide organisation which provides community development and spiritual support. Formed in England in the 1840s, it started in Sydney in 1853.

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Young Women's Christian Association

Christian women's support association established in Sydney by Mary Jane Barker.It provided migrant accommodation, an employment agency, an early savings bank for women and the first women's gymnasium in 1912, and continues at the forefront of women's advocacy.

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The YMCA Building, Pitt Street c1930

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By
Hall & Co
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Home and Away - 34937]
(Mitchell Library)

Aboriginal people with Mrs Long and Mrs Cook at La Perouse, Christmas 1903

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a730006 / PXA 773 / Box 6. 43]
(Australian Indigenous Ministries pictorial material : various historical photographs, ca. 1860-1909, Mitchell Library)

Eastcoast City Church, Caringbah 2008

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By
Hector Abrahams
Contributed By
Private collection

La Perouse Aborigines' Mission: music at the annual outdoor rally of the United Aborigines' Mission 26 January 1931

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[BN445]
(Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 1931, p12)

Wedding at the Chapel at Hillsong church, Baulkham Hills 2007

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By
ShadeNinja
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Flickr
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/57173278@N00/427608437/]
CC BY-SA 2.0

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