The Coptic Church of Australia has purchased the buildings which were the site of Melbourne\u2019s longest running gay sauna, Steamworks.<\/p>\n
The church paid $6.35 million for the two and three-storey buildings in March and at the time of the sale a video library, caf\u00e9 and gymnasium were operating on the premises.<\/p>\n
Located in La Trobe Street, Steamworks opened in 1979 as the first purpose-built gay bathhouse in Melbourne. It closed on October 13, 2008.<\/p>\n
The Coptic Orthodox Church is a conservative church that adheres to the doctrines and rites as handed down to her by the founding Fathers of the Church in the early centuries of Christianity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Steamworks\u2019 closure left Subway as the only remaining gay sauna in the CBD. <\/p>\n
If those walls could talk, what stories they would tell. But I’m sure those secrets will stay very well hidden no matter what is between all those walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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