As waves of immigrants arrived from Europe early in this century, they were incorporated into existing churches or established their own.
South Australia was never a British convict colony and between 1836-1840 about 13,400 immigrants arrived in the area.
From 1960 until the mid-1980s between 1,500 and 2,300 Brazilian immigrants arrived in the United States each year.
As waves of immigrants arrived in Australia, many made Redfern their first home.
As German Chilean immigrants arrived in the city during the mid 19th century, the local economy started to develop industries.
Within a few months, however, the city was repopulated as immigrants arrived from other parts of Czechoslovakia.
The first ship carrying immigrants arrived on 22 January - the Aurora.
Ownership then passed to immigrants newly arrived from Russia.
Around the 1860s an influx of Irish immigrants arrived in Charlestown.