St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Brisbane
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Building in 2015
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| Location | 330-334B Vulture Street, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°29′02″S 153°02′04″E / 27.484°S 153.0345°ECoordinates: 27°29′02″S 153°02′04″E / 27.484°S 153.0345°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1935 - 1950s |
| Architect | Gregory Mechonoshin, Cavanagh and Cavanagh |
| Official name: St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600358 |
| Significant period | 1935-1950s (fabric) 1925, 1948-1950 (historical) |
| Significant components | gate - entrance, trees/plantings, tower - bell / belfry, memorial - wall, furniture/fittings |
| Builders | B Robinson |
 Location of St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Brisbane in Queensland
Location of St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Brisbane in Queensland
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St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral is a heritage-listed cathedral at 330-334B Vulture Street, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Gregory Mechonoshin and Cavanagh and Cavanagh and built from 1935 to 1950s by B Robinson. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Nicholas was erected in 1935-1936. It was the first purpose-built Russian Orthodox church in Australia, and one of the earlier parishes established in the post-1917 Russian Diaspora, yet its construction came comparatively late in the history of Russian emigration to Queensland.
A trickle of Russian emigration to Queensland had been sustained through the 19th century, with numbers increasing substantially from the 1880s. These immigrants were popular with the Queensland government, assimilating rapidly. Most moved into rural occupations, and those who remained in Brisbane gained employment principally in the railways, meatworks and factories. By 1911, Russians comprised the fourth largest ethnic group in Brisbane, congregating in South Brisbane-Woolloongabba.
Queensland's largest intake of Russian immigrants took place in the years 1911-1914. Many were radicals and revolutionaries seeking asylum from tsarist political repression in the final chaotic years of the Russian Empire; considerable numbers were Jews escaping state-inspired pogroms. They had fled Russia via Siberia and Northern China, most making their way to Harbin, in Manchuria, then taking passage from the port of Dalian to Townsville or Brisbane, the first Australian ports of call.
Partly because they were scattered throughout the state, and partly because many pre-1920s immigrants associated Russian Orthodoxy with the tsarist system they were fleeing, no formal Russian Orthodox parish was established in Queensland during this period.
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