Detention River Christian Community, formerly known as Rocky Cape Christian Community was an

Anabaptist Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism'; , earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased. ...

Christian community, located between Smithton and Wynyard on the

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n island of

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

. The community was founded in 2005 by Elmendorf Christian Community in

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, a community of

Hutterite Hutterites (; ), also called Hutterian Brethren (German: ), are a communal ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early 16th century and have formed intent ...

tradition.Eliezer Ben-Rafael et al. (editors): ''The Communal Idea in the 21st Century'', Leiden and Boston 2013, page 201. Detention River was affiliated with the Hutterite Christian Communities. In 2017 the community was reincorporated as Detention River Christian Community. In 2021 the membership voted on and passed a resolution to relocate to Paraguay. Their Tasmanian community property was sold in 2022.

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