Avatar's Abode

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Queensland coast

Avatar's Abode is a 99 acre spiritual retreat about 75 miles north of Brisbane, Australia dedicated to Meher Baba. It was established by Australian poet and disciple of Meher Baba, Francis Brabazon, in the 1950's on the summit of Kiel Mountain near Woombye on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Brabazon purchased the land, an eighty-two-acre pineapple farm, with money willed to him by the Australian Sufi leader Baron Von Frankenburg. The site has a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean to the east and over valleys, farmlands and rolling blue hills to the west. By Meher Baba's wish, Avatar's Abode can never be sold, but must be kept as a place of pilgrimage. [1]

The founder of Avatar's Abode, Francis Brabazon, met Meher Baba on a trip to America in 1952 and later described Baba as "the very personification of truth and the very embodiment of beauty." After returning to Australia, Brabazon and a party of helpers managed to complete a structure called "Beacon Hill house" in time for Baba's first visit to Australia in August 1956. It was later called "Meher House". In 1958 Brabazon established a new building on Kiel Mountain, Woombye, Queensland to host Meher Baba on his next visit. While he was there, Baba named the area "Avatar's Abode" and said it would become a place of world pilgrimage. Francis Brabason's tomb is located there overlooking the ocean.