Country Australia Website www.stdenis.com.au Opened 1967 Capacity 500 | Denomination Roman Catholic Dedicated 1968-08-25 Phone +61 8 9242 2812 Status Parish church | |
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Location Joondanna, Western Australia Relics held Fragment of bone from Saint Peregrine Laziosi Address 60 Osborne St, Joondanna WA 6060, Australia Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth Similar First St Mary's Roman C, St Joseph's Church - North Ward, St Patrick's Church - Rosevale, St Mary Star of the Sea, Sacred Heart Church St | ||
St denis church joondanna top 7 facts
St Denis Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Perth suburb of Joondanna, Western Australia. The building was designed by Ernest Rossen, and is inspired by the Chapel du Ronchamp. It was built in 1967 and consecrated in 1968.
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The church has a pipe organ. The instrument was originally built in 1957 for the chapel at St John of God Subiaco Hospital. That chapel was demolished in 1994 and the organ was removed and rebuilt at St Denis. It was damaged during a severe storm in 2010, but subsequently repaired.
In 2010/11 a five-year plan to renovate the church building commenced:
In 2014 the tabernacle was moved from its original location on the side of the sanctuary to directly behind the altar.
History of the parish
The parish of St Denis was created by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville in 1952 by separating it from the larger parish of Osborne Park; responsibility for the new parish was given to the Servite Order, which had recently arrived in Australia. The first parish priest was Fr Patrick Nolan. At the time, the new parish's church was a Quonset hut on Wanneroo Road in Tuart Hill, consecrated the previous year, which also acted as a school.
The parish was named after the third-century Christian martyr, Saint Denis.