St. Prophet Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church, Footscray

About

The St Prophet Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church (Macedonian: Македонска Православна Црква "Свети Пророк Илија", Makedonska Pravoslavna Crkva "Sveti Prorok Ilija") is a Macedonian Orthodox church serving the inner western Melbourne suburb of Footscray, Victoria, Australia. The church borders Footscray and is itself located on the outskirts of Seddon, an inner western Melbourne suburb. Built as a Methodist Church, it was transformed into a Macedonian Orthodox Church in the mid-1970s.

St Ilija became the second church established by the Macedonian community in Melbourne. It is in Melbourne's inner-western suburbs on Victoria Street in the suburb of Seddon in a former Methodist Church purchased in 1974 and renamed St Prophet Elijah. The church consecration took place on 26 December 1974.

In 1984, the church bought a 40-acre property in Rocklyn to host large annual Macedonian community picnics. Part of the Rocklyn property is also the site of the new St Naum of Ohrid Monastery, built in the early 2010s.

Church owned house where Macedonian is taught