Merrylands

Merrylands Sydney, New South Wales
Chambers of the City of Holroyd Council
Merrylands
Coordinates	33°50′15″S 150°59′30″E / 33.83750°S 150.99167°E / -33.83750; 150.99167Coordinates: 33°50′15″S 150°59′30″E / 33.83750°S 150.99167°E / -33.83750; 150.99167
Population	26,658 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	2160
Location	25 km (16 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	Cumberland Council
State electorate(s)	Granville Auburn
Federal Division(s)	Parramatta Blaxland
Suburbs around Merrylands: Mays Hill Parramatta Granville Merrylands West Merrylands Holroyd Guildford West Guildford South Granville

Merrylands is a suburb in western Sydney, Australia. Merrylands is located 25 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of the Cumberland Council.

Merrylands was named after the former English home of Arthur Todd Holroyd (1806–1887), who acquired land in this area in 1855 and who gave his name to the adjoining suburb of Holroyd.

Merrylands has a commercial area around Merrylands railway station. Merrylands is a shopping centre with supermarkets, discount department stores and specialty shops.

The Merrylands railway station is serviced by the Airport, Inner West & South Line and the Cumberland Line of the Sydney Trains network. There is unlimited parking for commuters. It is on the bus route from Liverpool to Parramatta. Main transport corridors of Woodville Rd (Parramatta-Hume Hwy, Western Motorway M4 (Mountains to the sea). Other main roads include Coleman St (to Westmead Hospital), Hawkesview Rd (rail overbridge to Woodville Rd), Neil St (rail overbridge to Woodville Rd), Pitt St (to Parramatta), Lois St and Excelsior St (to Granville).

There are a number of churches in Merrylands, including Merrylands East Presbyterian Church, St Margaret Mary's Catholic Church, Merrylands Anglican Church, Merrylands Baptist Church, Merrylands Uniting Church, Merrylands Presbyterian Church and an Evangelical church.

St Raphael's Slovenian Catholic Church

There is also a Heritage Catholic Micro-Cathedral in honour of Saint Raphael the Arch-Angel on the corner of Warwick Road and Merrylands Road, which was not only the first and only Church in Merrylands but also one of the most uniquely designed in Western Sydney being a conventional-modern-neo-Gothic design. The Church of St Raphael was conceived by , OFM, OAM then soon to be completed and consecrated in 1973, by assistant bishop Dr. Stanislav Lenič from Ljubljana, Slovenija (previously Yugoslavia). The next building project was the church hall. Completed in 1983 the hall became the centre of lively cultural activities.