ABOUT 2000 worshippers have re-enacted the stations of the cross in Melbourne as part of an annual event that is growing each year.
The procession, called The Way of the Cross, was started by Melbourne City Churches in Action 12 years ago to bring people together on Good Friday.
Commemorating Jesus's final hours from the last supper to crucifixion and resurrection, it initially attracted just a couple of hundred people, organiser Jamie Pearce said on Friday.
"There was a feeling that there was nothing much happening in the city on Good Friday that was in any way shared," Mr Pearce said.
He said police had estimated the number of people attending this year at between 1800 and 2000.
The procession visited nine city churches, finishing at St Paul's Cathedral, with followers pausing for a reading and prayers with each stop.
Mr Pearce said the gathering on Sunday morning for the final station - the resurrection - will be significantly smaller than Friday's procession.
"It's usually only about 40 of us," he said. "They put on champagne in celebration of the resurrection.
"It's quite a bash."
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