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The Catholic Leader, July 2, 2017
News
Buranda community
St Luke’s
reopened
New altar: Buranda parish administrator Monsignor Peter Meneely celebrates Mass in the newly renovated St Luke’s Church. The
refurbishment includes a new marble altar. The high altar also has been renovated.
By Emilie Ng
RENOVATIONS on one of Brisbane’s iconic
Spanish mission-style churches, St Luke’s
Church, Buranda, are finally complete after a
30-month closure.
The Catholic community at Buranda held its first Mass inside
the newly renovated church on June 18, the first in nearly three
years.
The church officially closed for renovations on December 28,
2014, and Sunday Masses were relocated to the Little King’s
Movement centre in Woolloongabba.
Renovations to the church included a complete electrical rewir-
ing and repainting of the church, repairs to the roof which was
damaged in a 2014 hail storm, and the restoration of the high altar
and two side altars.
There is also a new marble ambo and matching marble low al-
tar, which were both originally inside the chapel at Penola Nursing
Home in Wavell Heights, run by the Sisters of St Joseph.
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Refreshed: Parishioners gather in St Luke’s Church for the first Mass since the church was closed for renovation; and (left) the bell
has been placed in the bell tower for the first time.
Moving back: The St Luke’s community processes with the Blessed Sacrament back into the
renovated church for the first Mass there in 30 months; and (right) a section of the St Luke’s
Green retirement community.