AT THE MARKET

A young fireman has found his engine at the Sunday Market. A great buy at $2.00!

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COFFEE IN OAKLEIGH

Oakleigh is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 15 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Monash. At the 2011 Census, Oakleigh had a population of 7,535.

Once a large independent city, Oakleigh was absorbed into Melbourne as part of the eastward expansion of the metropolis in the 1950s. As a result, it once had its own large historic Central Business District, its own municipality in the former City of Oakleigh and its own suburbs.

The area is traditionally known to have a strong Greek cultural influence, largely due to the influx of said immigrants to Australia in the mid-20th century. Fourteen per cent of those living in the suburb speak only Greek at home. It's always great to visit one of the cafés there, sit outside and order a cup of coffee and a pastry or cake...

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and also part of the Monday Mellow Yellows meme.

MURAL IN OAKLEIGH LIBRARY

This fine mural is made from sculpted salvaged elm tree wood. It is by artist Glenn Romanis who fashioned it in 2007 and it is installed on the wall of the foyer fo the Oakleigh Public Library.

This post is part of the Monday Mellow Yellows meme,
and also part of the Monday Murals meme.

COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH, OAKLEIGH

The Oakleigh Coptic Orthodox Church church traces its beginnings to 1975 when the growing Coptic community of the south eastern suburbs began praying Saturday liturgies at a hall in Dandenong with Fr Tadros Yacoub Malaty (the then parish priest of St Mary’s Church). Services began taking place once a month and eventually became weekly. The church founders wished to name their church after Archangel Michael, and on one of his many pastoral visits to Australia HG Bishop Antionious-Morkos suggested the church be name after Archangel Michael and Saint Anthony (the angel of heaven and the angel of the desert).

Within 3 years the congregation multiplied, and a larger church and a place to permanently call home was required. Around this time the Presbyterian Methodist and Congregational Churches were uniting under the title of the Uniting Church of Australia and as a result many churches became vacant. A property in Oakleigh became vacant, and it was an old Presbyterian Church, which the congregation desired to purchase. The asking price for the church was $200,000 the cost of 8 average homes at that time. An offer of $150,000 was first refused by the trustee, but after negotiations by the clergy and congregation, the offer was accepted and the congregation moved into their current home in Oakleigh in May 1980. Information about the church and its activities can be found here.

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