Max Whitaker leads the North Dunedin Walk of the Cross through the Dunedin Botanic Garden yesterday morning. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Participants in a combined Mornington Walk of the Cross move along Galloway St, Dunedin. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
People celebrating Good Friday move along Forbury Rd, Dunedin, yesterday. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Riley Broomhall (9) and Father Wayne Healey lead a procession from St Stephens on the Hill Anglican Church at Hampden yesterday. Photo by Bill Campbell.
Sharon Hargest (left), of Queenstown, and Kevin Marshall, of Wellington, with the cross at the Queenstown War Memorial yesterday morning. Photo by Tracey Roxburgh.
Enjoying the fine weather, hundreds of people celebrated Easter Good Friday in Walks of the Cross and associated church services throughout Otago yesterday, including 100 walkers at Queenstown and 25 at Hampden.
Rev Siosifa Pole, superintendent of the Dunedin Methodist Parish, praised the lively ecumenical spirit shown in Dunedin. Participants had come together ''as one people of God'' and a ''good mixture'' of youth and age showed that Good Friday traditions would be strongly maintained in future, he said.
