WESTRALIA'S FIRST CHURCH.
The first place of worship in Western Australia was quite unique, both from its frail form of construction, and also the several purposes to which if was devoted. This remarkable building was made at Perth, then merely a town site, by soldiers of the Second Company, 63rd. Regiment, shortly after the detachnunt arrived in the colony in 1824, and was composed almost entirely of bulrushes. Tr. addition to this rude little edifice being used on Sundays for Divine worship, it sometimes served as an amateur theatre during the week, and was used during the whole time as a barracks. There is probably no other instance on record of a building simultaneously, as it were, representing the Church, the Army and the drama.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 7
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125WESTRALIA'S FIRST CHURCH. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 7
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