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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Religious building

Subject
Baha'i House of Worship
Bishopscourt
Christian church architecture
Great Synagogue
Sacred Heart Catholic church Darlinghurst
St Barnabas' Anglican Church Broadway
St Benedict's Catholic church Broadway
St Brigid's Catholic church Millers Point
St Canice's Catholic church Elizabeth Bay
St James Anglican church Queens Square
St Mary's Cathedral
St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill
St Stephen's Presbyterian church Macquarie Street
Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough mourns loss of old All Saints' Church, Liverpool
Wayside Chapel
Al-Zahra mosque
Ali ben Abi Taleb Mosque Lakemba
All Saints' Air Force Memorial Church West Lindfield
All Saints' Anglican church Hunters Hill
All Saints' Catholic church Liverpool
Artarmon Mosque
Auburn Presbyterian church
Baha'i House of Worship
Bankstown Synagogue
Baptist Chapel Bathurst Street
Benedictine Abbey Cherrybrook
Berala Church of England
Bishopscourt
Bo Moon Sa temple Woodford
Bondi Mizrachi synagogue
Brookvale Gospel Hall
Brookvale Hall
Burton Street Baptist Tabernacle
Burwood Congregational Church
Cabramatta Seventh-day Adventist church
Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel
Cardinal's Palace
Carmel of Mary and Joseph Varroville
Castle Hill Methodist church
Centenary Hall York Street
Central Baptist church George St
Chalmers Presbyterian church Surry Hills
Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral
Chatswood South Uniting church
Cherrybrook Uniting Church Hall
Christ Church Anglican church Gladesville
Christ Church St Laurence
Church in the Market Place
Church of Christ Seven Hills
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple Carlingford
Church of Mount St Bernard, Botany
Church of St Stylianos
Church of the Holy Name of Mary Hunters Hill
Convent of Mercy Forbes Street Darlington
Convent of the Sacred Heart Rose Bay
Croatian Catholic church of St Nikola Tavelic
Cromer Uniting Church
Cronulla Presbyterian church
Dee Why Presbyterian Church
Devonshire Street Meeting House
Ebenezer Uniting Church
Emanuel Synagogue
Fairholme Mission Hall
Finlayson Street Uniting church
First Church of Christ Scientist Liverpool Street
Free Presbyterian Church Pitt Street
Gallipoli Mosque
Genesian Theatre
Great Synagogue
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady
Greek Orthodox Church of St Nektarios
Greek Orthodox church of St Stephanos Hurlstone Park
Heber Chapel Cobbitty
Hock Cheng See Buddhist Vihara
Holy Trinity Anglican church Millers Point
Holy Trinity Orthodox church Surry Hills
Hoxton Park Union Church
Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian church Annandale
Independent Chapel
Jong Bop temple Belfield
Killara Uniting church
Kwan Eum temple Punchbowl
Lane Cove Congregational church
Macquarie Street synagogue
Manly Congregational church
Marcellin House
Mariners' Church
Martin Luther Kirche
Mission Australia Centre
Mission Hall Chippendale
Mission House Ashfield
Mustard Seed Uniting Church Ultimo
Narellan Uniting church
Naremburn Church of Christ
Newtown Synagogue
Northbridge Uniting Church
Old Manse Farm, Pitt Town
Old St James parsonage
Old St Thomas chapel Narellan
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic church Gladesville
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic church Watsons Bay
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church Randwick
Paddington Uniting Church
Particular Baptist Church Castlereagh Street
Pitt Street Temperance Hall
Pitt Street Uniting church
Polding Memorial Chapel
Presbyterian church of St Andrew Gladesville
Protestant Hall Gladesville
Pymble Uniting church
Randwick Presbyterian Church
Redfern Presbytery
Ryde Musalla
Sacred Heart Catholic church Darlinghurst
Sacred Heart Monastery Kensington
Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral
Salvation Army Congress Hall Goulburn Street
Scots Church and Assembly Hall
Scots Presbyterian church Church Hill
Smithfield Mosque
South Head Congregational church
St Alban's Anglican church Lindfield
St Alban's Anglican church Ultimo
St Andrew's Anglican church Lane Cove
St Andrew's Cathedral
St Andrew's Congregational church Balmain
St Andrew's Scots Presbyterian church
St Andrew's Uniting church Artarmon
St Anne's Anglican church Ryde
St Anne's Catholic church Strathfield South
St Anne's church Bondi
St Anthony's Catholic church Watsons Bay
St Anthony's Croatian Catholic church Summer Hill
St Augustine's Catholic church Brookvale
St Barnabas's Anglican church Broadway
St Bartholomew's Anglican church Prospect
St Basil's Anglican church Artarmon
St Bede's Anglican church Drummoyne
St Bede's Catholic church Pyrmont
St Benedict's Catholic church Broadway
St Benedict's Monastery Arcadia
St Brigid's Catholic church Prospect
St Brigid's Catholic church and school Millers Point
St Canice's Catholic church Elizabeth Bay
St Charles Borromeo Catholic church Ryde
St Columb's Anglican church West Ryde
St Columba's Church of England, Homebush West
St Columba's Uniting Church
St Columbkille's Catholic church Woolloomooloo
St Cuthbert's Anglican church Naremburn
St David's Hall Surry Hills
St David's Uniting church Haberfield
St Euphemia Greek Orthodox church Bankstown
St Francis Catholic church Paddington
St Francis de Sales Catholic church Surry Hills
St George Antiochian Orthodox church Redfern
St George's Presbyterian church Castlereagh Street
St Giles Anglican church Greenwich
St James Anglican church Queens Square
St James Catholic church Glebe
St James Hall (1903-1961)
St James Hall Glebe
St Jerome's Anglican church Cawdor
St John's Anglican Cathedral Parramatta
St John's Anglican church Ashfield
St John's Anglican church Camden
St John's Anglican church Darlinghurst
St John's Anglican church Gordon
St John's Anglican church North Ryde
St John's Bishopthorpe Anglican church Glebe
St John's Catholic church Campbelltown
St John's Parish Hall, Glebe
St Johns Park Anglican church
St Joseph's Catholic church Belmore
St Joseph's Catholic church Rozelle
St Josephs church hall, Rozelle
St Jude's Anglican church Dural
St Jude's Anglican church Randwick
St Jude's Church School Hall Randwick
St Jude's church verger's residence Randwick
St Jude's rectory Randwick
St Kevin's Catholic church Eastwood
St Lawrence Chapel
St Leonard's Catholic church Naremburn
St Luke's Anglican church Brookvale
St Luke's Anglican church Liverpool
St Luke's Anglican church Surry Hills
St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church
St Mark's Anglican church Darling Point
St Mark's Anglican church Northbridge
St Mark's Catholic church Drummoyne
St Martin's Anglican church Killara
St Mary Magdalene's Anglican church Wisemans Ferry
St Mary The Virgin Anglican church
St Mary's Anglican church Mortlake
St Mary's Anglican church Peats Ferry
St Mary's Cathedral
St Mary's Catholic church North Sydney
St Matthew's Anglican church Botany
St Matthew's Anglican church Manly
St Matthew's Anglican church Windsor
St Matthew's rectory Windsor
St Matthias Anglican church Paddington
St Michael's Anglican church Vaucluse
St Michael's Catholic church Blacktown South
St Michael's Catholic church Daceyville
St Michael's Catholic church Lane Cove
St Oswald's Anglican church Haberfield
St Paraskevi Greek Orthodox church Blacktown
St Patrick's Cathedral Parramatta
St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill
St Patrick's Seminary Manly
St Paul's Anglican church Agnes Bank
St Paul's Anglican church Canterbury
St Paul's Anglican church Cobbitty
St Paul's Anglican church Seaforth
St Paul's Anglican church Wahroonga
St Paul's Catholic church Camden
St Paul's Presbyterian church, Rozelle
St Peter's Anglican church Campbelltown
St Peter's Anglican church Darlinghurst
St Peter's Anglican church Richmond
St Peter's Anglican church Seven Hills
St Peter's Anglican church St Peters
St Peter's Anglican church Watsons Bay
St Peter's Catholic church Surry Hills
St Peter's Presbyterian church North Sydney
St Philip Neri Catholic church Northbridge
St Philip's Anglican church Auburn
St Philip's Anglican church York Street
St Scholastica's Convent
St Simon's and St Jude's Anglican church Surry Hills
St Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral Paddington
St Sophia's Greek Orthodox church Surry Hills
St Spyridon Greek Orthodox church Kingsford
St Stephen's Anglican church Newtown
St Stephen's Presbyterian church Macquarie Street
St Stephen's Presbyterian church Phillip Street
St Swithun's Anglican church Pymble
St Therapon Greek Orthodox church
St Thomas' Anglican church Enfield
St Thomas's Anglican Church Rozelle
St Thomas's Anglican church Narellan
St Thomas's Anglican church North Sydney
St Thomas's Catholic church Lewisham
St Vincent's Catholic church Ashfield
St Vladimir's Russian Orthodox church Centennial Park
Sussex Street Chapel
Sze Yup temple Glebe
The Abbey
Trinity Hall, Argyle Place
Union church hall Arcadia
Unitarian Church
Villa Maria Monastery
Wat Buddhalavarn Wedderburn
Wat Khemarangsaram
Wat Pa Buddharangsee Leumeah
Wat Phrayortkeo Dhammayanaram Edensor Park
Wayside Chapel
Wentworth Memorial Anglican church Vaucluse
Wesley Centre
Wesleyan Centenary Chapel York Street
Wesleyan Chapel Bourke Street
Wesleyan chapel Princes Street
West Pennant Hills Methodist church
Wisemans Ferry Methodist church
YMCA Building
York Street Synagogue
Yui Ming temple Alexandria
Zetland Mosque
St Jude's Church Precinct Randwick
Amphitheatre of the Order of the Star in the East
Church Hill, Sydney c1870s
Advertisement for Jubilee Singers, Wesleyan Centenary Hall, York Street, c1892
Aerial view of Queens Square c1930
Al-Zahra Mosque, Arncliffe 2005
American tourists in the entrance to St Mary's Cathedral, 5 September 1962
Baha'i House of Worship Ingleside 2005
Baha'i House of Worship, Mona Vale 1963
Baha'i Temple 2009
Baptist Chapel, 5 December 1842
Baptist Church, Lyceum School and St Andrew's Church, Bathurst Street 1870-72
Bible Hall and Australian Mutual Provident Society, Pitt Street c1860s
Blessing the Host at the Manly Convent, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament procession 9 September 1928
Cambodian monks in Khmer temple Wat Rattananam, Cabramatta, January 2010
Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel, St Patrick's Estate, Manly, November 1935
Central Baptist church, George Street, Haymarket 22 May 1961
Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Randwick c1910
Congregational Church, Pitt Street 1856
Congregational Church, Pitt Street 1870
Crowd at Queens Square to celebrate unveiling of statue of Queen Victoria 24 January 1888
Crowds in Hyde Park outside St Mary's Cathedral following Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament procession 9 September 1928
Detail of Panorama of Sydney 1829
Detail of The Last Supper, All Saints’ Church, Hunters Hill
Detail of Transfiguration window in All Saints' church, Hunters Hill
Detail showing corner of Macquarie and King Streets from City of Sydney Survey Plans, 1833
East window in the Garrison church, Millers Point
Eastcoast City Church, Caringbah 2008
Ebenezer Church c1935
Egyptian Orthodox church marriage 2009
Eid prayer at Bonnyrigg Turkish mosque 2007
Elevation. Side of St Barnabas church, built by architects Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, Broadway, Sydney 2016
Emanuel Synagogue, Woollahra 2009
English Church, Cobbitty
Entering the Bonnyrigg Turkish mosque 2007
Entering the Bonnyrigg Turkish mosque 2007
Entrance to the Sze Yup Temple, Edward Street, Glebe 2003
Floor in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral 2014
Heber Church, Cobbitty, October 1931
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox church, Bourke Street, Surry Hills 2009
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox church, Bourke Street, Surry Hills 2009
House of Good Shepherd 1872
Hunter Baillie Church, Annandale c1930s
Hyde Park, St Mary's Cathedral and Belfry, c1842
Interior Temple Emanuel 1949
Interior of Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel, St Patrick's College, Manly, November 1935
Interior of St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta 2009
Interior of St Stephen's Presbyterian church, Macquarie Street c1935
Interior, St Matthew's Church, Windsor c1926
Istanbul in Sydney, Auburn 2009
Jesus Adam (right), a counsellor at Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1976
Lao Australian, Buddhist temple 2010
Marriage, Lakemba Mosque, Lakemba 2003
Medal from the International Eucharist Congress with St Mary's Cathedral on one side and Pope Pius XI on reverse, 1928
Men pray at Bonnyrigg Turkish mosque 2007
Morning service at the Great Synagogue, Falker Library 17 October 1997
Nativity, baptism and ascension of Christ: detail of the east window, Garrison church, Millers Point
Newtown Synagogue 1982
Non-sectarian Sydney City Mission, Millers Point c1920
Notice board outside Central Baptist church, George Street, Haymarket 22 May 1961
Old Manse Farm at Pitt Town 3 November 1985
Old St James parsonage on the corner of King and Macquarie Streets c1845
Orthodox Church of St Athanasios, Rookwood 2010
Oxford Street with the Sacred Heart Church and Penfolds wine sign 1960s
Pitt Street Uniting Church August 2012
Presbyterian Church, Northbridge 1929
Receiving Holy Communion at the Russian Orthodox Church, Cabramatta 2007
Remnants of original St Barnabas church which burnt down in 2006, Broadway, Sydney 2016
Repairs being undertaken to the St James parsonage on Macquarie Street 1886
Reverend Ted Noffs outside Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1966
Roman Catholic Church, Hyde Park Sydney c1840-1850
Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst 1870
Sacred Heart Monastery, Roma Avenue, Kensington 29 November 2011
Salvation Army Temple, Goulburn Street c1909-13
Scaffolding on St Mary's Cathedral 1920s
Scotch Church [Scots Church], Sydney, 18 November 1842
St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral 1872
St Andrew's Cathedral 1847
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney c1895
St Andrew's cathedral, corner of George and Bathurst Streets, January 1858
St Barnabas CE Church, Glebe c1905
St Barnabas Church begins to rise again November 2010
St Barnabas' Church 1870
St Barnabas' Church, Broadway (photographed for Canon Hammond) August 1937
St Barnabas' church, Parramatta Street, Sydney 1869
St Barney's forecourt 11 May 2012
St Benedict's Catholic church c1900
St Benedict's Catholic church, Chippendale 1926
St Benedict's, George St West c1870s
St Brigid's (Ryan's school), Kent Street 1900
St Canice's Roman Catholic Church, Darlinghurst 1889
St Canice's church on Roslyn Street, Potts Point c1940
St Ives Presbyterian church, St Ives 1960
St James Church c1860s
St James Church, Hyde Park Sydney c1840-1850
St James Church, Sydney c1890
St John's Cemetery, Parramatta, around July 1870
St John's Church schoolhouse, Glebe 1871
St Jude's Church, Randwick 1867
St Mark's Church including Mona Estate, Darling Point 1857
St Mark's Church, Darling Point 1863
St Mary's Cathedral 2004
St Mary's Cathedral after the fire in 1865
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 2008
St Mary's Cathedral, commenced 1866 and now in course of erection
St Mary's Roman Catholic School 1872
St Matthew's Anglican church, Windsor 1886
St Matthew's Church of England, Windsor 1868
St Michael's Church of England, Vaucluse 1955
St Michael's Church, Vaucluse c1877
St Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church, Railway Parade, Burwood 2002
St Patrick's Church 'The stone work of this exquisite specimen of 'Ecclesiastical Architecture' is now completed' 1843
St Patrick's College, Manly c1905
St Patrick's College, Manly, 1910-1962.
St Paul's Anglican church, Cobbitty c1880
St Paul's, Canterbury, September 16 1865
St Peter's church c1845
St Peter's church, Cooks River c1920
St Philip's church 1809
St Philip's church, Sydney, c1864-6
St Philip's church, c1840
St Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Paddington 1955
St Stephanos Greek Orthodox church, Hurlstone Park
St Stephen's Presbyterian church, Phillip St c1930
St Stephen's church, Newtown c1875
St Vincent's Catholic church Ashfield
St. Patrick's Church & Convent 1901
Stained glass by David Wright in Chapel of the Holy Spirit, St James' Anglican church
Stained glass in St Andrew's Cathedral depicting Mary Magdalene
Stained glass window designed by William Warrington 1856, St Paul's church Cobbitty
Stained glass window in St Paul's Anglican church, Cobbitty 2011
Star Amphitheatre, Balmoral, c1923
Sydney Church and Regimental Mile from the Main Guard c1817
Synagogue, Sydney c1890
Synagogue, York Street 1870
Synagogue, York Street Sydney c1840-1850
Sze Yup Temple in Edward Lane, Glebe 1904
Ted Noffs preaching to congregation at Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1966
Ted Noffs with group of people at Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, 1966
Temperance Hall, Pitt Street November 1870
The Bible Hall, corner of Pitt and Spring Streets 1861
The Carmelite Convent, Marrickville August 1886
The Cathedral Church of St Mary's 1841-1844
The Court House and St James' Church 1839
The Creation window by David Wright in Chapel of the Holy Spirit, St James' Anglican church
The Great Synagogue July 2008
The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunication of Our Lady and the offices of the Archdiocese, Redfern 2010
The Jewish Synagogue, York Street 1848
The Presbyterian Church at Ebenezer, 1951
The attic of the Ultimo Mustard Seed Uniting Church 2015
The imam (Islamic prayer leader) delivers sermon from the mimbar 2007
Toxteth Chapel. erected 1843, by George Allen on his estate at Glebe Point c1904
Trinity Hall of the Garrison Church at the Rocks c1930s
Ultimo Uniting Church at the corner of Quarry St and Bulwarra Road 17 January 2009
Vickery Mission Settlement and Central Methodist Mission
View of Hyde Park looking towards St. James Church and the Court House c1830-1850
Wat Khemarangsaram, Bonnyrigg 2010
Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross 1966
Wedding at the Chapel at Hillsong church, Baulkham Hills 2007
Wedding party, Ayia Sophia Church 1936
Wentworth Memorial Church, Vaucluse
Wesleyan Centenary Hall, York Street, c1892
Wesleyan Day and Sabbath School, Botany Street, Surry Hills 1864
Wesleyan schoolhouse and chapel, Regent Street c1870
West Ryde Baptist Church c1950
Women pray on the second floor balcony at Bonnyrigg Turkish mosque 2007
Working on the spire of St Stephen's Church, Macquarie Street 1930s
Yui Ming Temple, Alexandria 2009
Michael Gold, volunteer guide at the Great Synagogue, talks about the history of the building 1990
Mrs Marjorie Gough mourns loss of the old All Saints' Church building in Liverpool after it was demolished in 1971, interviewed in 1986
Reverend Graham Long on the Wayside Chapel