page_title: Evensong
section_title: Australia and New Zealand
hierarchical_section_title: Evensong / Churches offering Evensong / Australia and New Zealand
caption_attribution_description: St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne Architect: William Butterfield
context_page_description: Evensong is the common name for a Christian church service originating in the Anglican tradition as part of the reformed practice of the Daily Office or canonical hours. The service may also be referred to as Evening Prayer, but Evensong is the more common name when the service is musical.
  It is roughly the equivalent of Vespers in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran churches, although it was originally formed by combining the monastic offices of Vespers and Compline. Although many churches now take their services from Common Worship or other modern prayer books, if a church has a choir, Choral Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer, which is still the only official prayer book of the Church of England, often remains in use because of the greater musical provision.
context_section_description: Most of the cathedrals of the Anglican Church of Australia offer choral Evensong at least weekly, with St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne offering daily Evensong. Likewise in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, Evensong is offered at the cathedrals in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington.
caption: The choir in procession at a service at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.
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