Best Church: Mary Immaculate Church
- Author:
- Pam Walker
- Posted:
- Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The Mary Immaculate, constituted as a parish in 1865, is now the Australian mother-church of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. Instantly recognisable, the architecture is characteristic of the Romanesque Renaissance period – contemporary, majestic and strangely reminiscent of a creamy white chocolate stack reaching up to the sky. The direct sight lines to both altar and pulpit are a traditional European design element of the Franciscan Order. Internally, Cesare Vagarini’s paintings of the Seven Joys of Our Lady Mary provide a striking delight, as does the finely crafted organ, installed in 1979 to commemorate a century of Franciscan Friars in Waverly. (Alex Bell) 45A Victoria St, Waverley
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Story posted on Tuesday, 23 August 2011, filed under 2011, Best of Sydney. Follow responses via the RSS feed.
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