Ethnic group
Interior of Yahya Yuhana Mandi in Sydney Interior of 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 the largest Mandaean diaspora community 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 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 , where Wallacia Mandi is currently being built.[6] Another mandi in Greater Sydney is 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 Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Liverpool, New South Wales [10] Brikha Nasoraia (born 1964 in Iraq), Rishama , professor, and President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and Nasoraean Mandaean Association[11] Khaldoon Majid Abdullah (born 1963 in Iraq), the head priest of Mandi Yehya Youhanna in Prestons, New South Wales 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] Sahi Bashikh , a tarmida in SydneyThamir 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