Stage Number: MBSH.03.06.27
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Greenslopes-Coorparoo
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 143 Cavendish Rd, Coorparoo
Latitude & Longitude: -27.49311111,153.058
Time Link: 1934
Map Link: 1940
Image Time Point: 1940
The Bretheren Church began in Schwarzenau, Germany in 1708. In 1723, the first Bretheren Church in America was founded and German migration to the U.S.A. saw the Church gain a large following. It later spread to the British Empire. The Bretheren labelled their places of worship as meeting rooms. A pacifist religion, the Bretheren saw possibilties in a war-weary Australia, following the end of WWI. Pacificism and appeasement were popular with the public, well into the mid-1930s. The Bretheren had built this, its first church, on the southside, by 1934. This small and simple timber church is in the style favoured by the Bretheren and is also known as a Gospel Hall.
Brisbane City Council, Heritage Register Summary, https://bit.ly/2lly1Mn
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.
