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Ethnic group
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 largest 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 (born 1952 in Iran), the current
Rishama and head priest of the
Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in
Liverpool, New South Wales
[10]
Khaldoon Majid Abdullah (born 1963 in Iraq), the head priest of the
Mandi Yehya Youhanna in
Prestons, New South Wales
Brikha Nasoraia (born 1964 in Iraq), 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 .
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