Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship. Australia has the second-highest Mandaean population in the world, after

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Sydney metropolitan area

The

Sydney metropolitan area Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains ...

in Australia has one of the largest Mandaean diaspora communities in the world. The community is centered in

Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, and far western sub-regions within Sydney's metropoli ...

suburbs such as Penrith and Liverpool. In Liverpool, the main

mandi Mandi may refer to: Places * Mandı, Azerbaijan India * Mandi, Jammu and Kashmir, a town on the Mandi River in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir * Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, a city in Himachal Pradesh ** Mandi State, former princely sta ...

(Beth Manda) is the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi. The Sabian Mandaean Association of Australia has purchased land by the banks of the Nepean River at Wallacia, New South Wales in order to build a new mandi. Another mandi in Sydney is the Yahya Yuhana Mandi.

Associations

The Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia is the largest Mandaean association in Australia. Religious affairs are managed by the Mandaean Synod of Australia.

Notable people

Salah Choheili (, plural , romanized: or Old Arabic ͡sˤaˈloːh, ( or Old Arabic ͡sˤaˈloːtʰin construct state) ), also known as ( fa, نماز) and also spelled , are prayers performed by Muslims. Facing the , the direction of the Kaaba with ...

, the current Rishama and head of the Mandaean community in Australia *

Majid Fandi al-Mubaraki Majid or majeed may refer to: * , ''majīd'' 'majestic', and , ''mājid'' 'magnificent', two names of God in Islam Arts and entertainment * ''Majid'' (film), a 2010 Moroccan film *Majid (rapper) (born 1975), a Danish rapper of Moroccan-Berber ori ...

, a Mandaean living in Australia who has digitised many Mandaean texts using typesetted Mandaic script *

Yuhana Nashmi Akhmad Bassah (also Bassakh; ; fl. 1923–30), best known by the pen name Joehana (; Perfected Spelling: Yuhana), was an author from the Dutch East Indies who wrote in Sundanese. He worked for a time on the railroad before becoming an author ...

, artist, photographer, writer, and archivist * Brikha Nasoraia, Mandaean priest, professor, and President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and Nasoraean Mandaean Association

References

External links

Sabian Mandaean Association in AustraliaMandaean Synod of AustraliaAustralian Association for Mandaean StudiesMandaean Youth Australia
{{Ethnic groups in Australia Immigration to Australia Mandaeans Iranian Australian

Sydney metropolitan area

Associations

Notable people

See also

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