The largest underground church in town - 17m below ground, with carved rock walls and stained glass.
Carved deep into the sandstone, this is the most spectacular of Coober Pedy’s underground churches - soaring rock walls, a back-lit iconostasis and a stained-glass ceiling window. Dress respectfully; donations welcome.
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Coober Pedy's main cemetery - a moving, very Coober Pedy place where miners of dozens of nationalities lie, including the famous beer-can headstone.
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The social heart of Coober Pedy's large Croatian mining community - the Croatian Welfare & Sports Club, part of what makes this such a multicultural town.
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The town's original burial ground, used from the early 1920s - the resting place of some of the very first people to live and die on the opal fields.
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