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DAREBIN HERITAGE STUDY STAGE 2Not to be outdone, the following October the Fairfield Baptists built their church in one day,however they did lay the foundations a week earlier. The Baptists also built a chapel in HighStreet, Regent in 1915, close to the site of the old Particular Baptist chapel and the new churchretained the pulpit and Bible from the old one. However there was no actual connectionbetween those early Particular Baptists and the twentieth century Baptists who opened the newchurch.A Church of Christ was also built in Northcote, on the corner of Bastings Street and ProspectGrove, however no details of this are available, except it was the church in which DougNicholls was converted to Christianity. In 1939, Nicholls became a Church of Christ pastor,and began his ministry to the Fitzroy Aboriginal community (Darebin Historic Encyclopedia;Lemon, 1983:202).Places of worship that reflect post-war immigrationIn the second half of the twentieth century, the religious character of Darebin began to changemarkedly with the arrival of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, who broughtwith them religious traditions new to Darebin, in particular the Eastern Orthodox churchesand Islam. Since the 1990s, the Buddhists have also been represented in Darebin.ChristianDue to declining church attendance in the traditional English-speaking churches and theformation of the Uniting Church in Australia, a number of the older Protestant churches weremade redundant. Many of these churches were taken over by immigrants arriving from Europebrought their religions such as the Greeks, Macedonians and Christians from the Middle Eastwho brought the Orthodox traditions.A church honouring the Macedonian Saints Cyril and Methodius was formed in Fitzroy in1950, but in 1966 it moved to the former Anglican Church of the Epiphany in High StreetNorthcote, and became known as the Macedonian - Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. Theformer Yann Street Methodist Church became the Greek Orthodox Church of St Cyril and StMethodius and ministers to Macedonians of Greek origin (Jupp, 1988:688-9). In Northcotethe Little Sisters of the Poor Convent has become the Holy Monastery of Axion Estin of theGreek Orthodox Church.Darebin is also home to Melbourne’s Protestant Macedonian community, who are descendantsof Methodists and Baptists evangelised by American missionaries in the nineteenth century.The Macedonian Evangelical United Church on the corner of Wood Street and MurphyGrove, East Preston is a Uniting Church Parish, with links to the Evangelical MethodistChurch in the former Yugoslavia. The Baptist Church in High Street, Regent is now used byMacedonian Baptists (Jupp, 1988:685, 690).A number of other Eastern Orthodox churches, including St Nikola in Tyler Street, Preston,Holy ChurchSt George in St David Street, Thornbury, which was the Greek Orthodox churchfor Northcote and environs (until the 1990s it was located in the former CongregationalChurch on the corner of Martin Street and Armadale Street) and, commenced in redundantchurches, while St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Gilbert Road also commenced in aredundant church before opening a new church complex in 1989. These churches show thetransition of Darebin from the stronghold of non-conformist Protestantism to a multiculturalcommunity.104
VOLUME 2: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORYFigure 74St Mark’s CopticOrthodox Church[Context, 2008]The immigrants arriving from Europe brought their religions helped boost the CatholicChurch in Darebin. Between 1947 and 1961 the number of Catholics in Melbourne morethan doubled from 254,050 to 518,305 (Bourke, 1988:297). It is said that:In expanding Melbourne, new streets of houses and whole new suburbs rose from the ground as ifby magic. Old parishes were divided, and new parishes were divided again. Churches, schools,presbyteries and convents were built or enlarged. (Bourke, 1988:296)Many post-war immigrants settled in Darebin and by 1961 the proportion of Roman Catholicsin Preston had risen to 28.5%, compared with 27% of all Victorians. As a result new places ofworship were constructed to serve the rapidly expanding suburbs in the north and east ofDarebin. St Joseph the Worker in North Reservoir was founded by the Italian community andhas one of Darebin’s largest Italian congregations.The design of new Catholic churches erected in Darebin in the 1960s also responded to theSecond Vatican Council, which held sessions in four successive years from 1962 through 1965.The Holy Name church in Robb Street, East Preston erected in 1964 reflected the newphilosophy. The fan shaped plan of the church accommodated 850 people was adopted by thearchitect as being ‘the best shape for focusing attention on the altar and emphasising thepresent liturgical concept of unity of the Priest and the people in the offering of the Mass’(Advocate, 17 December 1964). In describing the church as being ‘liturgically correct’ FatherClearly explained that it was a church where the liturgy could be carried out effectively as ‘thepeople were centred on the altar and not apart from it’ (Advocate, 31 December 1964). StRaphael’s in Hardy Street, Preston is another example of a post-Second Vatican CouncilModernist church.MuslimAs noted in Chapter 2, Reservoir has Melbourne’s second highest concentration of Muslims,and Preston also has a high Muslim population. The Omar Bin El Khattab mosque in CramerStreet Preston, opened in 1976 was Victoria’s first purpose-built mosque. It is the place ofworship for 10,000 Muslims from Melbourne’s northern suburbs (www.decc.org.au). A secondmosque is in Blake Street Reservoir.BuddhistThe Melbourne Linh Son Buddhist Congregation was established in March 1991 as theMelbourne branch of the World Linh Son Buddhist Congregation, and commenced services tothe public in a small house in the heart of Vietnamese North Richmond. The Congregationgrew rapidly, drawing devotees from Richmond and neighbouring suburbs, so that in 1994larger premises became necessary. With financial support from the World Linh Son BuddhistCongregation and the Taiwanese Buddhist Foundation, the Congregation purchased the105
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