Original post 26 July 2017:
Ok people, especially anyone with a greek background, which one of these is the most architecturally exciting Greek Orthodox Church ? One architect designed, the other not. I’m looking specifically at postwar ones, 1950-1980, there are loads of others but honestly they’re mostly odd, amateurish attempts at stylised byzantinish. So these are my ‘best’ – the first is the fab coloured concrete block St John the Baptist church in Lygon Street North Carlton (1968). The second is the interesting St Nektarios, Sydney Rd Fawkner opposite the cemetery, all 70s circles/ curved version of byzantine church by James Earle, 1973, great fully painted domed interior. For comparison the last is Our Lord Coburg, near the Coburg market, which is a very simple possibly precast concrete form, with recent addition of more historicist stone porch and rather plain interior. First pic mine, rest the internet.
Storey of Melbourne 