Fallen Sisters Home
Fallen Sisters Home
11 Barkly Street
Carlton
VIC
Australia
Provider: Salvation Army
Year Opened: early 1884
Year Closed: 1886
Aka Rescued Sisters Home.
The Salvation Army established the Fallen Sisters Home, in Carlton, in early 1884, for women recently released from prison. In the previous year, the Army’s Prison Gate Brigade had started a home working with male ex-prisoners.
James Barker led the way to establish the first Salvation Army social institution anywhere in the world on a permanent basis.
Similar work for women commenced in early 1884, with the opening of a Fallen Sister’s Home in Carlton (also called a Rescued Sister’s Home). It catered for discharged female prisoners, prostitutes and drug addicts frequenting the opium dens of the Little Bourke Street area. In its first 12 months, this women’s refuge had received 3000 women who were in desperate need of assistance.
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