St Dominic’s

Ever since the first public Mass was celebrated for the first 29 people in the parlour of Holyrood House on 16 March 1924, countless parishioners and worshippers have made St Dominic’s their home.

Our beautiful church was begun in 1936 with the turning of the first sod and dedicated by Archbishop Justin Symonds on 31 March 1960.  The altar contains relics of Pope St Clement and St Dominic.

Visitors to the Church will be able to appreciate William Patrick Connolly’s elegant design and Henry Clarke’s magnificent windows.  Finally completed in 1958 and consecrated in 1960, St Dominic’s Church has been described as “a defiant finale to the Gothic Revival in Australia”. Even more importantly, St Dominic’s Church is a sign of eternal hope and an oasis of abiding peace in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.