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Interior of the Yahya Yuhana Mandi in Sydney
Interior of the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Sydney
Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship.
As of 2023, Australia has the highest Mandaean population in the world, followed by Sweden (which has the largest Mandaean population in Europe) and the United States.[1]
Sydney metropolitan area
The Sydney metropolitan area in Australia has one of the largest Mandaean diaspora communities in the world.[2] The community is centered in Greater Western Sydney suburbs such as Fairfield, Liverpool,[3] and Penrith.[4] In Liverpool, the main mandi (Beth Manda) is the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.[5] 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.[6] Another mandi in Greater Sydney is the Yahya Yuhana Mandi (or Mandi Yehya Youhanna), located in Prestons.[7]
Associations
The Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia is the largest Mandaean association in Australia.[8] Religious affairs are managed by the Mandaean Synod of Australia.[9]
Notable people
- Salah Choheili, the current Rishama and head priest of the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Liverpool, New South Wales[10]
- Khaldoon Majid Abdullah, the head priest of the Mandi Yehya Youhanna in Prestons, New South Wales
- Brikha Nasoraia, Mandaean priest, professor, and President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and Nasoraean Mandaean Association[11]
- Majid Fandi al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia who has digitised many Mandaean texts using typesetted Mandaic script[12]
- Yuhana Nashmi, artist, photographer, writer, and archivist[13]
- Peyam Jizan (born 1978 in Iran), a tarmida in Sydney[14][15]
- Thamir Shamkhi, a tarmida in Sydney
- Asaad Othmani, a tarmida in Sydney
- Waleed Khashan (born 1963 in Iran; Persian: Waleed Ebadeh Farzadeh; Arabic: Waleed Abdul Razzaq), a tarmida in Sydney[16][17]
- Carlos Gelbert (born 1948 in Basra, Iraq), a writer, novelist, and translator in Sydney
See also
References
- ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN 1935-441X.
- ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- ↑ Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
- ↑ Smith, David Maurice (30 July 2015). "An Ancient Baptism in Sydney". Roads & Kingdoms. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ↑ Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi, Liverpool, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ↑ "Mandaean Synod of Australia". Welcome to the Mandaean Synod of Australia. 5 July 2005. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ↑ Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Yahya Yuhana Mandi, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ↑ Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
- ↑ Mandaean Synod of Australia.
- ↑ "Rishamma Salah Choheili: July 2016, Chapter 1". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ↑ Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha): an analysis. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-33544-1. OCLC 1295213206.
- ↑ Mandaean Network.
- ↑ "Art Studio Yuhana Nashmi Storytelling through Art". Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ↑ "Tarmida Peyam Jizan, July 2016, Chapter 1". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ↑ "PJ Chapter 1 V2". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ↑ "Tarmida Waleed Khashan: March 2014". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ↑ "Tarmida Waleed Khashan". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
External links
- Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia
- Mandaean Synod of Australia
- Australian Association for Mandaean Studies
- Mandaean Youth Australia
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