Killalpaninna Mission

Killalpaninna Mission (also known as Bethesda Mission) was a Lutheran Aboriginal mission in far northeast South Australia. It existed from 1866 to 1915.

The mission was founded by two missionaries Johann Friedrich Gößling and Ernst Homann, and two lay brethren, Hermann Vogelsang and Ernst Jakob.

After a difficult three-month journey from Tanunda, they established their mission station at Lake Killalpaninna (about 40 km south of Coopers Creek) and tried to convert the Dieri people to Christianity. The mission station declined by the start of World War I and was closed by the government in 1915.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Nutting, Dave. "Killalpaninna Mission". www.germanaustralia.com. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
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