“By God’s grace”: Festival Hall sells to Hillsong Church for $23m – The Age

Festival Hall, the legendary Melbourne music venue that hosted packed houses for the Beatles, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra, has been sold “by God’s grace” to the Hillsong Church for $23 million.
In a video posted to Hillsong’s YouTube channel on Sunday, the church’s founder Brian Houston told his congregation: “By God’s grace … we’ve been able to purchase Festival Hall.”
Melbourne’s Festival Hall was originally built in 1915 was destroyed by fire in 1955 and was rebuilt a year later in time…

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