St. Anne's Church, Sydney, Australia

Standing: High · Heritage site
Rank: Rank 245 of 18,875

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About St. Anne's Church

St Anne's Church, also known as St Anne's Shrine, is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church in North Bondi, in Sydney's Waverley Municipality. The parish of St Anne's, Bondi Beach, was created in 1925 when rapid population growth led to the division of the Bondi parish, and Father Daniel O'Sullivan, appointed in 1926, oversaw the building of its main church buildings. The church was designed by Joseph Fowell and Kenneth McConnel and built from 1934 to 1964 by R. M. Bowcock. It is owned by the Sisters of Mercy and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 26 May 2006. Today it is one of the two Catholic parishes of Bondi, together with St Patrick's.

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What's inside

St Anne's is an example of Inter-War Romanesque church architecture. Its textured red-brick façade contrasts with a sandstone plinth, entry portico, door and window surrounds and parapet copings; according to the heritage listing, the bricks were hand-brushed by university students to give the façade its texture. The Blair Street portico, with a gabled roof on sandstone columns, is crowned by a statue of St Anne with the child Mary, and its parapet is carved with gargoyles supporting saints; two angel figures carved in pressed brick sit above the entry windows. Inside, cream brick blends with sandstone trim, and a shrine housing a relic of St Anne stands in the west aisle.

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Season and crowds

St Anne's Catholic Church, listed by the parish at 47 Mitchell Street, Bondi Beach, shares its Mass timetable with St Patrick's Bondi as the Catholic Parishes of Bondi. At St Anne's, Sunday Mass is at 8am and 5pm, with confessions 30 minutes before each Sunday Mass. On weekdays there is a 6.30pm Mass on Monday, followed by adoration and confessions at 7pm, a 6.30pm Mass on Tuesday, a 9:15am Mass on Friday and a 9:00am Mass on Saturday. The parish states that daily Mass and the sacraments are available to Catholics both local and visiting, and both churches have a sung liturgy with a choir.

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Place details and sources

Address: Blair Street, 60B, 2026, NSW OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Wheelchair access: Available OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Building: Church OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Type of place: Place of worship OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Established: 1964 Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Heritage designation: Heritage Act — State Heritage Register Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Religion: Christian OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Denomination: Roman Catholic OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Wikipedia article: St Anne's Catholic Church, North Bondi Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09