Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Sydenham
church in Victoria, Australia
The Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Macedonian: Македонска Православна Катедрална Црква „Успение на Пресвета Богородица“, Makedonska Pravoslavna Katedralna Crkva "Uspenie na Presveta Bogorodica) is a Macedonian Orthodox cathedral church located in Sydenham, a suburb of northwestern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
History
In 1994 the local Macedonian community began efforts to establish a church in the western suburbs of Melbourne. The initiative was approved by the Macedonian Holy Synod in February 1995.
The church was built on Sydenham Road in Sydenham. Metropolitan Petar consecrated the church in October 1996.
In April 2016, the church hall and shed were burned down in a fire considered suspicious by local authorities.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Sydenham” as church in Victoria, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as church in Victoria, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105686722. Authority coordinates are -37.705, 144.776. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2016.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Sydenham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.