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Woolloongabba (Brisbane), Queensland Australia Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia This Russian Orthodox parish, the first in Australia, was established by white Russians fleeing the Russian revolution. For many years they worshipped in St Thomas’s Anglican Church in nearby South Brisbane. In 1925 they purchased a cottage and converted it into a church. It was later moved to the back of the block to make way for the construction of the new church. Since these early days, and indeed since the foundation of the church, services have changed little. Worship is still conducted in the liturgical language, Church Slavonic. There are no pews or chairs and the congregation stands while the smell of incense wafts around singing members. Candles burn before the icons and on the altar. More icons line the walls representing the spiritual beauty of the Kingdom of Heaven. Source: www.stnicholascenter.org/gazetteer/81

Description Spire, 2015 St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is situated with its main face to Vulture Street, in a setting of tall mature trees.[1] On the site which rises gently from Vulture Street, and flanked to each side and to the rear by high-set single-story timber buildings of domestic scale, the church building is the central, commanding building in the group. With its white finished walls resembling masonry, symmetrical facade, and distinctive towers, the church stands quite tall and contributes significantly to the streetscape in this part of Vulture Street.[1] In plan, the church is a simple rectangle, with a square attached tower over the front entry and an attached rectangular aisle at each long side.[1] There are three symmetrically placed entry porches at the front Vulture Street facade, with roof forms and bargeboards shaped to the profile of a cupola and surmounted by ball and cross finials. A three-sided apse is centrally located at the rear.[1] The square tower houses a choir space directly above the main entry, and a belfry above that, accessed by a series of simple timber ladders.[1] Above the altar and centrally placed in the main roof is a smaller six-sided tower and cupola.[1] Constructed on a rendered masonry base, the building is timber-framed with a roughcast rendered fibro exterior, save for the western aisle which has been built in rendered masonry subsequent to 1950. The main roof is sheeted in corrugated galvanized iron, and the cupolas and tapering roof to the square tower are made up of flat and curved pieces of galvanized sheeting.[1] Rendered masonry steps provide access to each of the three front entry doors, which have two leaves in a round-headed opening.[1] A path runs from the central entrance to a metal gate, centrally placed in a rendered masonry fence along the street frontage. This fence comprises pillars with incised crosses and ball finials, between which are masonry panels and steel tube and wire infill panels.[1] The interior has a wooden floor and a ceiling that follows the line of the rafters, lined with fibro and VJ boards.[1] In this building, the simple geometric forms, crowned with cupolas and punctuated with tall round-headed windows, are an expression of the canon of Russian religious architecture that dates from Byzantium and that has been constructed here in response to local materials, time, and place.[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/?curid=44629642

With a large number of Russian immigrants to Queensland in the 1920s, there was a distinct need for expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church beyond the parish which had been established in Brisbane by Father Shabasheff. The increasing number of immigrants in rural areas, esp. the Callide Valley and Childers district, meant that another priest was needed. Antonieff responded to the call and resumed his ministry. Antonieff became acting head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Queensland for three years. In 1932 he was confirmed in the appointment of archpriest and incumbent of the Church of St. Nicholas in Brisbane. His appointment came at the time when the parish was starting to outgrow the small church and it was decided to build a purpose-designed Russian Orthodox church. He strongly supported the fundraising for the new church which was built on the site of the existing church, which would be moved back. The church would also be a memorial to the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II. From 1929 to 1961 he was Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas and Head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Queensland. He travelled extensively throughout Queensland, visiting Russian communities. A bearded patriarchal figure, he consolidated the rather sparse foundations left for him by his predecessor, and founded Sunday schools and a library. He was naturalised in 1939. Faced with a further post-war increase of Russian migrants, the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad appointed Father Antonieff protopresbyter of the Church in Australia on 17 December 1951. This position, equivalent to monsignor in the Roman Catholic Church, gave him the primacy of his Church. He held it until a bishop was appointed from overseas, then ministered in Queensland until ill health forced him to retire from full-time duty in 1961. He died at his Brisbane home on 26 August 1962 and was buried in Toowong cemetery. Source: kangaroopointhistory.com.au/photo-gallery/churches/church...

St Thomas' Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church at 69 High Street, Toowong, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built-in 1877 by Henry Pears. It was also known as St Thomas' Church of England. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[1] Description St Thomas' seen from Jephson Street, 2008 St Thomas' Church of England is situated on a prominent triangular site at the corner of High and Jephson Streets, Toowong. The site comprises a brick church surrounded by established plantings and trees and containing early retaining walls, fences, gates and stairs.[1] The southern, entrance end of the church addresses the corner of the two streets, where three substantial gate pillars with an iron palisade gate provide a principal entrance to the grounds of the church. Two sets of concrete stairs containing memorial gate posts and memorial plaques give access from the church grounds to the streets flanking the site.[1] The church is a bi-chrome brick building with a seven-bay nave, chancel and a very steeply pitched gabled roof clad with diamond-patterned fibrous cement shingles and terracotta ridge capping. A small decorative timber-framed fleche at the southern, entrance, end of the church surmounts the apex of the gabled roof and has a steeply pitched pyramidal roof with an iron cruciform finial. Generally, the church is constructed from a dark brown brick and has cream brick detailing, in the form of window surrounds, arched window heads, quoining, and string coursing. The church sits on a two-course sandstone plinth, the lower course comprises rock-faced blocks and the blocks in the upper course is sparrow picked and margined. The plinth at the northern, most recently constructed, end of the church is constructed from smooth rendered concrete.[1] The southern, entrance facade has an almost triangular facade due to the overhanging eaves of the steeply pitched roof and squat sidewalls. This elevation is dominated by a centrally located tripartite window comprising three lancets filled with stained glass and with stuccoed sills and heads and all embraced by a cream brick pointed arch. Flanking the principal window are smaller lancets, with similarly detailed heads and sills.[1] The bays of the nave are defined on the eastern and western external facades with angle buttressing, which also lines the southern facade. The buttressing features a tapered head of rendered concrete, from which the timber eaves brackets spring. Diagonal buttressing braces the chancel of the church. Centrally located within each bay is an operable lancet window, filled alternately with figured and grisaille stained and colored glass panels. At the southern end of both sides, elevations are steeply gabled porches, which are the principal entrances. These are flanked by buttressing which supports the timber framing of the roof structure. The gabled ends are open, with a small triangular timber panel near the apex. The porches provide access to double-pointed arched timber doors featuring ornate and overscaled iron strapwork hinges.[1] The northern end of the church comprises a chancel and two transepts. The chancel is a square planned, gable-roofed structure abutting the body of the church to which it is similarly detailed although subordinate in height to the principal building. Flanking the chancel are smaller, square planned abutments with hipped roofs, which are in the form of transepts but are, in fact, small rooms, a vestry, and a store.[1] Internally the church is arranged around a central rectangular nave dominated by dark stained timber boarded ceiling, on the underside of a steeply pitched roof. Supporting the roof and defining the nave bays internally are a number of dark stained timber, king post roof trusses. At the northern end of the nave is a chancel, separated from the body of the church by a pointed chancel arch. Internally the walls of the body of the church are rendered and scoured to resemble ashlar stone work. Though externally the church seems to have transepts, these projections, in fact, house a vestry to the west and a store room to the east with entrance to the rooms through timber doors flanking the chancel arch.[1] The chancel is boarded to about 2,100 millimetres (83 in) with timber panelling, featuring carvings of pointed arches with foiled heads. This panelling steps higher on the rear, northern, wall. On this wall and above the stepped panelling is a tripartite group of stained and coloured glass featuring images from the Adoration of the Magi and housed in a pointed arched recess.[1] A number of stone, marble or brass plaque memorials line the internal walls of the church and commemorate various figures in the history of the parish of St Thomas, including RL and A Drew and Sarah Frances Zitella Clark. Many of these memorials were carved by Toowong stonemason, William Busby and bear his signature. As well most of the stained and coloured glass, windows thought to be executed by William Bustard are memorials to parishioners. The tripartite stained glass window in the sanctuary depicts a scene of the Adoration of the Magi.[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Thomas%27_Anglican_Church,_Toowong