CORNER LOWER HEIDELBERG ROAD AND KING STREET, EAST IVANHOE Valuable site: the East Ivanhoe Uniting church and its land were sold for more than $11 million. Here’s an illustration of how quickly churchgoing has declined in well-to-do suburbs where not long ago churches were at the centre of local life. The East Ivanhoe Uniting churchContinue reading “EAST IVANHOE UNITING CHURCH”
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SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, CAMBERWELL
(CHRISTIAN SCIENCE)COOKSON STREET, CAMBERWELL The Christian Science church in Camberwell is one of Melbourne’s best examples of 1930s Modernism. But its once flourishing denomination is declining. In its country of origin, the United States, once a seemingly inexhaustible fount of new variations on the Christian theme, Christian Science was founded in 1879 as Mrs MaryContinue reading “SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, CAMBERWELL”
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