Mandaean Australians

Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship.

Mandaean Australians
Total population
c. 10,000
Regions with significant populations
Sydney and other cities
Languages
Mandaic, Arabic, Persian, English
Religion
Mandaeism
Related ethnic groups
Mandaean Americans
Interior of the Yahya Yuhana Mandi in Sydney

Australia has the second-highest Mandaean population in the world, after Sweden.

Sydney metropolitan area

The Sydney metropolitan area in Australia has one of the largest Mandaean diaspora communities in the world.[1] The community is centered in Greater Western Sydney suburbs such as Penrith[2] and Liverpool.[3] In Liverpool, the main mandi (Beth Manda) is the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.[4] 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.[5] Another mandi in Sydney is the Yahya Yuhana Mandi.[6]

Associations

The Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia is the largest Mandaean association in Australia.[7] Religious affairs are managed by the Mandaean Synod of Australia.[8]

Notable people
  • Salah Choheili, the current Rishama and head of the Mandaean community in Australia[9]
  • Majid Fandi al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia who has digitised many Mandaean texts using typesetted Mandaic script[10]
  • Yuhana Nashmi, artist, photographer, writer, and archivist[11]
  • Brikha Nasoraia, Mandaean priest, professor, and President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and Nasoraean Mandaean Association[12]

See also

References
  1. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
  2. Smith, David Maurice (30 July 2015). "An Ancient Baptism in Sydney". Roads & Kingdoms. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  3. Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
  4. Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi, Liverpool, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  5. "Mandaean Synod of Australia". Welcome to the Mandaean Synod of Australia. 5 July 2005. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  6. Robins, Ian. "Album: The Yahya Yuhana Mandi, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  7. Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
  8. Mandaean Synod of Australia.
  9. "Rishamma Salah Choheili: July 2016, Chapter 1". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  10. Mandaean Network.
  11. "Art Studio Yuhana Nashmi Storytelling through Art". Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  12. Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha): an analysis. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-33544-1. OCLC 1295213206.
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