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St Barnabas CE Church, Glebe c1905

St Barnabas CE Church, Glebe c1905

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Broadhurst Post Card Publishers

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State Library of New South Wales

[a105294 / PXA 635/292]

(Mitchell Library)

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St Barnabas' Anglican Church Broadway

St Barnabas' Anglican Church on Broadway, known to many as Barney's, has a long tradition of ministry to the diverse communities of the inner city. The congregation was boosted by the arrival of Reverend RBS Hammond in 1918 and his energetic ministry to disadvantaged people and in the cause of temperance. St Barnabas' also became important to students attending Sydney University and the University of Technology. In the 1990s the publican of the Broadway Hotel began a notice-board repartee with Reverend Robert Forsyth that became famous. St Barnabas' burned down in 2006 but was rebuilt and reopened in 2012.

Anglican

Religious building

St Barnabas's Anglican church Broadway

Inner-city church built in the mid-nineteenth century to minister to a slum area. Burnt down in 2006, it re-opened in a new building on the same site in June 2012. Famous for its duelling signboards across Broadway.

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Broadway

Street at the western edge of Sydney's central business district which gives its name to the locality around it.

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Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.