| název | obraz | Umístění | Farnost založena | Kostel postaven | Architekt | Farní zaniklý | Popis / poznámky |
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| Zvěstování |  | 18 Greenwood Pl. | 1885 | 1901 | Albert A. Post | 2009 | První z toho, co by nakonec byly tři římskokatolické farnosti na Buffalo's Upper West Side, Zvěstování bylo založeno v době, kdy se sousedství teprve začínalo urbanizovat, a jeho založení zase vedlo ke splynutí početné irsko-americké komunity v jeho okolí.[3] Postupem času se etnická ústava farnosti vyvinula z irské většiny od italské k hispánské. V roce 2009 se sloučila se sousedními farnostmi Panny Marie Loretánské a Narození Páně pod novým názvem Panna Maria naděje, která se nadále setkává v bývalém domě Zvěstování.[20] První farní školní budova byl přidán do Národní registr historických míst v roce 2008.[54] |
| Svatí andělé |  | 348 Porter Ave. | 1852 | 1859; rozšířené 1874 a 1894 | neznámý | 2020 | Jedna z nejstarších katolických farností v Buffalu, zřízená Misijní obláti Neposkvrněné Marie sloužit jako farní kostel spojený s novou katolickou vysokou školou v Buffalu, seminářem pro výcvik kněží. Budova byla v průběhu let opakovaně rozšiřována a měněna: transept, svatyně a sbor byly přidány v roce 1874, kaple na západní straně budovy s výhledem na Fargo Avenue v roce 1894 a interiér byl přepracován v roce 1898 a znovu v roce 1953, v té době byla přidána ručně vyřezávaná křížová cesta dovezená ze Švýcarska a nová vitrážová okna zobrazující tajemství růžence a mariánská zjevení. Populace farnosti začala klesat v 60. letech a[3] s odvoláním na finanční potíže diecéze v Buffalu uzavřela kostel v červenci 2020 a sloučila farnost se Svatým křížem na Maryland Street a Pannou Marií naděje na Greenwood Place.[55] |
| Svatí apoštolové SS. Peter & Paul |  | 807 Clinton St. | 1909 | 1909 | Schmill & Gould | 2007 | Farnost původně sloužila polsko-americké komunitě na východní straně zaměstnané hlavně v továrnách v Společnost Larkin Soap stejně jako na dvorech. Kostel v koloniálním stylu byl rekonstruován po vážných škodách způsobených požárem v prosinci 1921; byla v době rozpadu farnosti jedinou dřevěnou budovou v Buffalu, která se používala jako katolický kostel[3] kvůli sloučení s St. Valentine, St. Stephen, Precious Blood a SS. Rita a Patrick.[6] V současné době je sídlem ministerstev věznic Peaceprints.[56] |
| Svatá rodina |  | 1901 South Park Ave. | 1902 | 1908 | Lansing & Beierl | 2010 | Farnost založená kvůli rychlému růstu populace v jižním Buffalu spojeném s otevřením Ocelárna Lackawanna jižně od městské linie, kdysi největší na světě.[57] Popsán jako jeden z nejlepších příkladů románské obrození církevní architektury v Buffalu; nástěnné malby (dílo dánského umělce Holvaga Rambuscha) zobrazují scény z Book of Kells a Evangelia Lindisfarne, odrážející tradičně irsko-americké etnické složení sboru, zatímco okna svatyně pocházela od společnosti Tiroler Glasmalerei Innsbruck.[3] Sloučila se sv. Ambrozem a sv. Agátou pod záštitou konsolidačního programu diecéze „Cesta ve víře a milosti“ a vznikla nová farnost Panny Marie Charity;[18] v budově se pořádají dvě nedělní mše týdně a také středeční mše v pondělí a pátek.[58] |
| Svaté jméno Ježíše |  | 1947 Bailey Ave. | 1887 | 1905 | Cyrus K. Porter a syn | 2005 | Farnost sloužila komunitě německých Američanů, dvojjazyčně v angličtině a jejich rodném jazyce[7] a do značné míry zaměstnány železnicemi, které křižovaly tuto část východní strany; Původní kostel s dřevěným rámem byl po dokončení současné budovy znovu použit pro farní školu a sloužil jako takový až do výstavby dnešní školní budovy (1913). Kostel je gotický, postavený ze žuly sv. Vavřince a svlečeného kvádru; věž na vrcholu věže na severním konci hlavní fasády byla odstraněna C. 2009.[59] Interiér má intimní proporce a v podkroví je okno z barevného skla, které zobrazuje Svatou rodinu.[3] Farnost byla jednou z prvních, která byla rozpuštěna v konsolidačním programu diecéze „Cesta ve víře a milosti“. Nyní domov církve Božího nového života v Kristu.[60] |
| neposkvrněné početí |  | 150 Edward St. | 1849 | 1900; rozšířen 1925 | Max Beierl[3] | 2005 | Pozemek darovaný diecézi v roce 1839 dědici prominentního občana Louise LeCouteulx de Caumont ([1] ) za založení anglicky mluvící farnosti pro irsko-americkou komunitu města; tato farnost (Old St. Patrick's) byla místo toho umístěna v centru města, načež se majetek vrátil k vlastnictví dědiců LeCouteulx za podmínek darování; diecéze znovu získala vlastnictví v roce 1849, načež byla definitivně ustanovena farnost.[3] Malý dřevěný rámový kostel byl v roce 1856 nahrazen větší zděnou stavbou a následně současnou gotickou stavbou.[7] Církev byla uzavřena v roce 2005 z důvodu klesajícího počtu zápisů současně s programem konsolidace farnosti diecéze „Cesta ve víře a milosti“, ale nesouvisí s ním.[61] Nyní prochází přeměnou na Assembly House 150, „neziskové designové a stavební studio, které pomůže podpořit novou úrodu budov ve městě“.[62] Budova je přispívajícím majetkem do Národní registr historických míst - uvedeny Historický okres Allentown, založená v roce 1980.[36] |
| Neposkvrněné Srdce Panny Marie |  | 375 Edison Ave. | 1946 | 1947 | neznámý | 2009[63] | Farnost založená, aby sloužila obyvatelům nového Langfield Homes, projektu veřejného bydlení, který byl postaven ve čtyřicátých letech minulého století na Far East Side na některé z posledních zbývajících volných pozemků ve městě[64] a určené jako bydlení pro pracovníky v průmyslových odvětvích souvisejících s druhou světovou válkou a později pro návrat veteránů a jejich rodin. Budova v modernistickém stylu původně sloužila funkci bohoslužby i společenského sálu;[3] vedlejší školní budova postavená v roce 1950.[65] Podle diecézních měřítek farnost s krátkým životem; do roku 2006, tři roky před fúzí farnosti se sousedním St. Aloysius Gonzaga v Cheektowaga v rámci závěrečné fáze konsolidačního programu diecéze „Cesta ve víře a milosti“ se farní populace zmenšila na pouhých 160 rodin.[66] Nyní Greater Faith Bible Tabernacle, letniční kostel s většinou černým sborem.[67] |
| Narození Panny Marie |  | 228 Albany St. | 1898 | 1901 | Albert A. Post | 2009 | Farnost založená kvůli pokračujícímu populačnímu růstu na Buffalo's Upper West Side; sbor byl původně tvořen převážně členy nově ražených irsko-amerických středních vrstev přesídlených ze stísněného a špinavého prostředí Prvního sboru, tradiční irské enklávy Buffala; v průběhu 20. století se sbor stal spolu s okolím jako celkem italskou většinou a později hispánským. Kostel je postaven z medinského pískovce a „pozoruhodně„ ovládá své nárožní místo svou gotickou nevázaností “ jetel vzory v kružbě oken nad vchody.[3] Interiér kdysi obsahoval varhany Hall & Labaugh z roku 1853, jeden z nejstarších v kostele v Buffalu, původně vlastněný farností v Yonkers a znovu nainstalován v Buffalu v roce 1911.[68] V rámci diecézního programu „Cesta ve víře a milosti“ se sloučilo s Pannou Marií z Loretta a Zvěstováním a vznikla nová farnost Panny Marie naděje, která se schází v jejím bývalém kostele.[20] |
| Naše paní z Loretta |  | 158 15. sv. | 1924 | 1951 | Chester Oakley | 2009 | Farnost byla založena v reakci na oznámení nového blízkého presbyteriánského misijního kostela, kterého se obávala diecéze Buffalo, aby pronikla mezi silně katolickou italskou komunitu na západní straně města. Sbor se scházel v bývalém presbyteriánském kostele v Bethany až do roku 1949, poté byla zahájena výstavba současné budovy.[3] Naše Paní z Loretta se spojila v roce 2009 s farnostmi Narození a Zvěstování a přijala jméno Panny Marie naděje, které přetrvává v bývalém domě těch druhých.[20] Budova kostela je posledním velkým dílem významného církevního architekta Buffala Chestera Oakleye,[69] provedeno v modernistickém stylu s některými prvky ornamentů ve stylu Art Deco z pozdního období. Budovu dnes okupuje Destiny Church International, letniční kostel s většinově hispánským sborem. |
| Panny Marie Lurdské |  | 1109 Main St. | 1850 (jako francouzský katolický kostel sv. Petra) | 1900 | A. E. Minks & Sons | 1993 | Založen jako jeden ze čtyř dceřiných sborů Beránka Božího, první Buffalova katolická farnost; uctívali na několika místech v centru města předtím, než postavili kostel na Main Street, načež převzali své konečné jméno.[3] Postaven z medinského pískovce ve stylu popsaném jako „šťastné prolínání románského a renesančního románského stylu, převážně převládající“ a s relativním nedostatkem exteriérové výzdoby; uvnitř byl zpočátku podobně strohý[70] ale později se objevily nástěnné malby od italského umělce Carla Antonia Nisity. Vzhledem k malé velikosti francouzsko-americké komunity v Buffalu se sbor nikdy nerozrostl tak, aby odpovídal dostatečné velikosti jejich budovy, jako tomu bylo v mnoha jiných dobách; velká část jeho nadbytečného prostoru byla nakonec použita pro sociální a atletická zařízení otevřená obyvatelům sousedství, včetně basketbalových hřišť, prostoru pro akce a bowlingové dráhy.[71] Farnost se spojila se sv. Matoušem, sv. Bonifácem a sv. Benediktem Moorem pod jménem sv. Martin de Porres.[42] Budova je v současné době přestavována společností Ellicott Development na směs maloobchodních, restauračních, kancelářských a obytných prostor.[72] |
| Naše dáma z hory Karmel | Žádný obrázek není k dispozici | 41 Fly St. | 1906 | 1906 | neznámý | 1949 | Budova kombinovaného kostela / školy obsahovala také obytný prostor pro duchovenstvo, který postrádal samostatnou faru;[7] sloužil chudé sicilské přistěhovalecké populaci Canal District, notoricky známý slum; přehlídka a festival, který se každoročně konal v červenci na svátek farního jmenovce, však byly místně proslulou tradicí. Populace farnosti vyvrcholila kolem roku 1920 ve 20. letech[73] ale pak klesal, protože obyvatelé sousedství, kteří si mohli dovolit lepší bydlení, začali odcházet do Lower West Side; výbuch zemního plynu v roce 1936 upozornil místní vládu na špatné životní podmínky v činžácích a zrychlil odchod z okresu Canal. V době jejího rozpuštění zůstalo ve farnosti pouze 90 rodin, bezprostředně poté byl kostel spolu se zbytkem sousedství zničen v údajně jedné z prvních asanace slumů systémy v USA[74] Marine Drive Apartments dnes sídlí v areálu. |
| Drahá krev |  | 145 Lewis St. | 1898 | 1899 | Albert A. Post | 2007 | Budova gotického obrození kdysi obsahovala nástěnnou malbu Kristus král maloval ve 20. letech 20. století církevní umělec Jozef Mazur na semidomu apsidy. Parish initially comprised a community of mostly Irish- and German-Americans working in the Jacob Dold Packing Plant and similar businesses around the Buffalo stockyards, but was Polish-majority by C. 1910 as that ethnicity came to dominate the meatpacking industry.[3] The Felician Franciscan Sisters were in charge of the school, and a convent was built for them on the property in 1964.[75] The parish merged in 2007 with St. Valentine, St. Stephen, Holy Apostles SS. Peter and Paul, and SS. Rita and Patrick and vacated the building at that time.[6] Now home to an African-American Baptist congregation.[16] |
| Královna míru |  | 1955 Genesee St. | 1920 | 1928 | Dietel & Wade | 2007 | Parish originally served a Polish-American community that, in the years immediately after World War I, had migrated north from the city's main Polish enclave in Broadway-Fillmore. Notable for its architecture; building is in Late Gothic Revival style[76] with a façade of Ohio sandstone accented with Indiana limestone and a floor plan unlike any other Catholic church in Buffalo; a cross-shaped, multipurpose structure encompassing a rectory to the west, a school building to the east, and the worship space itself extending north-to-south between them.[3] Interior once decorated with mural paintings by Jozef Mazur, now painted over.[77] Parish dissolved in wake of the diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" parish consolidation program; was purchased in 2009 and is now a mosque and Islamic community center; jezuita -run parochial school on site remained open for some time thereafter.[78] |
| Královna Nejsvětějšího růžence |  | 1040 Sycamore St. | 1913 | 1917 | Władysław Zawadzki | 1993 | Parish was established by the Buffalo Diocese as a pretext to acquiring the church building formerly belonging to Holy Mother of the Rosary at a foreclosure auction; they were a renegade "independent Catholic" church that, due to longstanding disagreements within the congregation of St. Adalbert, seceded in 1895 not only from the parish but from the Diocese itself; they later aligned with the Polský národní katolický kostel. Current building was constructed after Holy Mother of the Rosary won its church back in a subsequent lawsuit.[3] Architecturally, the building is an example of Zawadzki's signature quasi-French Renaissance style[79] with some Gothic Revival elements added.[80] After the parish's 1993 merger with St. Adalbert's Basilica, the building was purchased by Darul Uloom Al-Madania Islamic Seminary for use as its girls' school, known as Darul Rasheed; ironically, they also own the original Holy Mother of the Rosary building too, which is now their mosque. |
| Nejsvětějšího srdce |  | 200 Emslie St. | 1875 | 1915 | Schmill & Gould | 1973 | Parish originally served German-American community that had gathered in the Hydraulics neighborhood; worshiped initially in various temporary locations then built a church on Seneca Street in what later became the midst of the Společnost Larkin Soap tovární komplex. Larkin purchased original church in 1912 to facilitate expansion of their operations, whereupon it was vacated by the congregation.[3] Present church built of brick and Ohio sandstone[7] in the Late Gothic Revival style with an imposing tripartite clerestory; complex also included a school, rectory, and Františkánský convent surrounding a courtyard.[81] After parish dissolution, served variously as home to a Ukrainian Orthodox church and Witness Cathedral of Faith; now vacant.[82] School and rectory demolished in 2008 and 2017 respectively; convent and church still extant as of 2019 but at risk of demolice zanedbáním.[83] |
| St. Adalbert Basilica |  | 208 Stanislaus St. | 1886 | 1891 | Raymond Huber | 2011 | Second Polish Catholic parish in Buffalo, founded due to overcrowding at St. Stanislaus. Originally envisioned as center of master-planned community including a park, home for the aged, and immigration house; plan abandoned when original church burned down. Infighting among parishioners in 1880s and '90s led to high turnover of pastors and schism leading to foundation of "independent Catholic" parish Holy Mother of the Rosary, later affiliated with Polský národní katolický kostel.[3] First church in the United States to be named a basilica (1907). Present church sports Romanesque and Byzantine influences and was largest in Buffalo at the time of its construction. Interior decorated with murals by Jozef Mazur[84] completed in 1925, many of which were removed in a 1976 renovation, as well as stained glass by Franz Mayer & Co. Mnichova.[85] Parish merged with St. John Kanty and is now used by them as an oratoř.[86] |
| Sv. Agáta |  | 65 Abbott Rd. | 1909 (as All Souls) | 1956 | Mortimer J. Murphy | 2010 | Parish originally known as All Souls; founded to serve the Italian-American community that had coalesced in the western part of the Triangle neighborhood near the railroads where many of them worked, though by 1917 it had become Irish-majority.[87] Original wood-frame church at the corner of Germania and Mystic Streets suffered damage in June 1920 when the floor caved in under the weight of the parishioners at a particularly well-attended Sunday Mass; the congregation was temporarily disbanded pending repairs and was renamed St. Agatha upon its reopening the following year. Austere design of the 1956 combination church/school is owed to the fact that the parish was traditionally small and did not have the need for, nor the financial resources to support, a large and extravagant building such as many parishes in Buffalo had at the time.[3] Merged with Holy Family and St. Ambrose to form the new Our Lady of Charity parish,[18] who later sold the building to developer Sam Savarino. As of 2018, the building is proposed to be converted into apartments, offices, or educational or performing arts space.[19] |
| Sv. Anežky |  | 194 Ludington St. | 1882 | 1905 | Esenwein & Johnson | 2007 | The first of what were ultimately three parishes in the neighborhood of Lovejoy, initially serving a mixed German and Irish community attracted to the area by availability of jobs on the railroad; Irish parishioners seceded in 1898 to found Visitation parish. Congregation became majority-Italian after World War II. Church is Romanesque Revival in style[3] and one of few ever to have been designed by the otherwise prolific local firm of Esenwein & Johnson. Stained glass installed 1919-1921 was the work of Otto F. Andrle; six mural paintings by D'Arcangelo Studios once adorned the interior, five of which were removed in 1985. Parish merged with Visitation and St. Francis of Assisi to form the new St. Katharine Drexel parish, which meets in the latter's former home on North Ogden Street.[34] Now a Buddhist temple owned by the International Sangha Bhiksu Buddhist Association.[88] |
| Sv. Ambrože |  | 260 Okell St. | 1930 | 1950 | Foit & Baschnagel | 2010 | Established from the southern part of the territory of Holy Family parish; the modest frame church constructed on the site was not replaced with a permanent structure until 1950, due to the economic hardship of the Velká deprese and supplies rationing during druhá světová válka.[3] The building was designed in a Modernist style and is most notable for its stained glass, created in 1992 by local artist Russell Vacanti; its imagery was inspired by the reforms of the Druhý vatikánský koncil and deals with themes such as socioeconomic justice, gun violence, drug abuse, interfaith relations, and others not typically seen in stained glass art. Merged with Holy Family and St. Agatha under the auspices of the diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program to form the new Our Lady of Charity parish;[18] the building still hosts two Sunday masses a week, as well as Saturday evening vigil and midweek Masses on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.[58] |
| St. Ann |  | 651 Broadway | 1858 | 1886 | Brother Charles Halfmann, from drawings by Francis Himpel | 2007 | Founded at what was then edge of Buffalo's urbanized area under correct assumption that new church would be catalyst for outward expansion of city's East Side German community; by turn of century was largest German parish in diocese and among largest Catholic churches in the U.S.;[89] its school was also largest in Buffalo at the time, with 1,500 students.[7] Construction of current church began 1878 and lasted six years; was designed by assistant pastor who was also amateur architect, based on sketch drawn by a New York architect whose original design was rejected as too costly. Gothic Revival design described as most European of any church in city; walls 7 feet thick, built of steel-reinforced Lockport dolomit. West tower shorter than east due to inability of ground to support its weight; spires once rose over 200 feet above street, removed 1964 after damage due to wind storm. Interior contains stained glass by F. X. Zettler Studios of Mnichov, altar imported from Germany featuring painting of Svatá Anna, large fresco paintings by Leo Frohe;[3] Johnson & Son pipe organ sold for scrap in 1966.[90] Parish began to share ministry team and pool resources with St. Mary of Sorrows and SS. Columba-Brigid in 1992 as part of reorganization of "central city" parishes[26] but challenged outright merger with the latter as part of subsequent consolidation; latter decision reaffirmed by diocese in 2013 and by Vatican's Apoštolská Signatura v roce 2017,[91] though building's 2013 nomination as a Buffalo city landmark[11] forestalled diocese's original plan to demolish it. |
| Svatý Augustin | No image available | 417 Michigan Ave. | 1912[92] | between 1854 and 1872 (as private residence)[93] | neznámý | C. 1946[94] | Short-lived mission established on the Near East Side to serve a small congregation of African-American Catholics that had heretofore worshiped at St. Joseph's Cathedral, from which the parish continued to be administrated. Parish also operated a school and offered manual training classes.[7] After dissolution of parish, building housed a nightclub, Club Savoy.[95] Demolished shortly after 1960 as part of the same urban renewal scheme that claimed the former St. Lucy church.[96] Site is now part of the parking lot in front of the Compass East Building. |
| Svatý Bartoloměj |  | 335 Grider St. | 1912 | 1930 | George W. Stickle | 1993 | Parish founded in an East Side neighborhood then newly urbanizing due to construction of a streetcar line along nearby Kensington Avenue; served an initially German-American congregation.[97] English Gothic-style building constructed largely of cobblestones salvaged from then-recent repaving of Elm Street downtown; entrance portal and frontispiece are of Indiana limestone; interior decorated with handcrafted woodwork.[98] Parish population peaked at 1,000 families in 1962 but fell precipitously thereafter due to demographic changes in neighborhood; school closed 1978; parish began sharing a priest with St. Matthew in 1989;[3] merged with Blessed Trinity as part of diocesan consolidation program for inner-city parishes.[26] Now home of Ephesus Ministries, a nondenominational African-American church. Former rectory notable as site of murder of then-pastor Rev. Joseph Bissonnette, one of two Buffalo priests slain over a two-week period in 1987,[99] as well as that of Sister Karen Klimczak in 2006, ironically after its conversion to a halfway house for former prisoners named in honor of Bissonnette.[29] |
| St. Benedict the Moor | No image available | 281 E. Utica St. | 1874 (as St. Nicholas) | 1893 | Fred Mohr | 1993 | Parish founded under the name St. Nicholas in Cold Spring, then a well-to-do East Side German neighborhood without a Catholic parish of its own; growing Irish ethnic minority led to bilingual services by 1891. Worshiped in three church buildings each consecutively bigger to accommodate population growth, the final of which was a Gothic-style building[3] with asymmetrical spires 80 and 120 feet in height respectively; towers featured exquisite pointed-arched fenestration in various arrangements.[100] Parish became majority-black in the 1970s and was renamed in 1981 to honor prominent saint of African descent.[92] Merged upon its closure with the neighboring parishes of Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Boniface, and St. Matthew under the new name of St. Martin de Porres.[42] Church building demolished C. late 1990s;[101] site now occupied by various detached single-family homes built in 2000.[16] |
| St. Boniface |  | 151 Mulberry St. | 1849 (as St. John the Baptist) | 1857 | neznámý | 1993 | The third German-American Catholic church in Buffalo, serving the Fruit Belt neighborhood northeast of downtown. The church was founded under the name St. John the Baptist and given the new name St. Boniface in 1857 upon the completion of its second church building, an English Romanesque-style structure whose sanctuary was centered on an altar presented to the congregation by King Ludvíka II. Z Bavorska featuring a large oil painting of Svatý Bonifác. The church also purchased a rare Liparské organ in 1939 for use in services.[102] The parish population had already begun declining by 1914,[7] and by 1970 had shrunk to fewer than 100 families, leading to the demolition of the church building in 1979. The congregation continued holding Mass in the former Parish House on Locust Street[103] until its merger with Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Benedict the Moor, and St. Matthew to form the new parish of St. Martin de Porres.[42] The site of the original church is now a vacant lot, while the Parish House has been owned since 1995 by Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug recovery organization.[104] |
| St. Brigid | No image available | 399 Louisiana St. | 1850 | 1860 | Rev. Martin O'Connor[105] | 1987 | The first Catholic parish to be erected in the city's First Ward, a crowded area of working-class Irish industrial laborers, St. Brigid served as social center for the neighborhood and had an influential voice in community affairs, especially in labor disputes such as the one between industrial magnate William "Fingy" Conners and the city grain scoopers' union in 1899. Parish gained a sizable African-American and Hispanic contingent after the construction of the Commodore Perry housing projects[106] v roce 1940.[107] Church was badly damaged in a 1968 fire and razed the following year; Mass was held in a chapel in the school building until the parish's 1987 merger with St. Columba.[24] The St. Bridgid's Square (sic) shopping plaza now occupies the site of the former church.[108] |
| Svatý Kazimír |  | 160 Cable St. | 1890 | 1929 | Oakley & Schallmo | 2012 | Parish served initially small and isolated Polish community along Clinton Street near the city line which began to grow rapidly after turn of century; original frame church replaced consecutively by larger one in 1908 and even larger current building for which ground was broken in 1926; Byzantské obrození design inspired by Rev. Anthony Majewski's travels to the Near East and desire for church architecturally unlike any other in the diocese. Brightly-colored façade features ornate terra cotta detailing by associate architect Joseph Fronczak: relief sculpture above entrance depicting Svatý Kazimír distributing alms to the needy, painted statues of Saints Vojtěchu a Hyacint below deeply recessed rose window, Kristus král flanked by angels at top of front gable;[109] interior contains hand-carved statues of Twelve Apostles placed atop monumental columns and Botticino marble altar crowned by 65-foot arch.[3] Merged with St. Bernard as part of 2000s-'10s parish consolidation program, but building is still used as an oratoř "providing for the spiritual care of... particularly those of Polish descent" within the congregation.[110] Pojmenovaný a Buffalo city landmark v roce 1977.[11] |
| St. Clare |  | 197 Elk St. | 2007 | 1888 (as home of predecessor parish St. Stephen) | Fred W. Humble | 2016 | Parish merged with St. Teresa's upon its closure. St. Clare itself was the product of a 2007 merger between the parishes of SS. Rita and Patrick, St. Valentine, Holy Apostles SS. Peter & Paul, Precious Blood, and St. Stephen, worshipping in the church formerly belonging to the latter.[6] Building was sold in 2017 to a local sound engineer who plans to turn it into a recording studio[111] a byl uveden na Národní registr historických míst v roce 2018.[112] |
| St. Columba |  | 75 Hickory St. | 1888 | 1892 | neznámý | 1987 | Parish founded in what was then a majority-Irish district on the Near East Side without a conveniently located Catholic church. Held services at first in a converted tenement house before completion of permanent church, a relatively austerely decorated Romanesque-style building whose interior was centered on a marble altar topped with a Celtic cross. Over the years, the ethnic makeup of the congregation changed to Italian and then became largely Hispanic[3] after 1960, when St. Lucy's parish was dissolved and its congregation merged into St. Columba's. Long famous as home of the "Printers' Mass", which took place at 1:30AM on Sunday mornings from 1925 until 1971 for the benefit of late-shift newspaper workers.[3] Parish merged with St. Brigid's,[24] and the combined SS. Columba-Brigid continued to meet in the former's church until it was demolished after a 2004 fire.[28] |
| St. Elizabeth |  | 986 Grant St. | 1906 | 1908 | Max Beierl | 2007 | Parish served Buffalo's Hungarian-American community, the bulk of whom lived in Black Rock in vicinity of church; however, parish counted members citywide as well as in Lackawanna a Tonawanda due to the fact that it was the only Catholic church in Western New York where Mass was said in the Hungarian language. Church was built of brick and is Romanesque Revival in style,[7] with steel-truss roof and open floor plan.[3] Was still offering Hungarian-language services at time of its merger with Assumption parish as part of 2000s-'10s diocesan consolidation program.[113] Now home of Abundant Life in Christ Ministries, a Pentecostal church with a predominantly African-American congregation. |
| Svatý Florián |  | 567 Hertel Ave. | 1917 | 1964 | Joseph Fronczak | 2007 | Smaller of the two Catholic parishes that served the Polish enclave in the Black Rock neighborhood, the northeastern portion of which began to develop around World War I-related industries. Original combination church/school building erected 1919 was meant to be temporary, but unexpectedly slow growth in parish population kept it in use much longer than anticipated.[3] Permanent church building Modernist in style; contained stained glass windows in sanctuary depicting Polish saints which were removed upon the parish's dissolution due to the diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program.[114] Now home to the nondenominational Renovation Church.[115] |
| St. Francis de Sales |  | 575 Humboldt Pkwy. | 1912 | 1927 | Murphy & Olmstead with George Dietel | 1993 | Foundation of parish coincided with sale of defunct Buffalo Driving Park site to real estate developers; diocese correctly predicted rapid growth of new East Side neighborhood of Hamlin Park. Current building was third to house parish,[3] replacing a brick combination church/school building built in 1913 and a small temporary church built in 1912, respectively.[7] Most notable for its architecture; an Italian Romanesque design suggestive of churches in Ravenna, with Indiana limestone façade, ceramic tile roof, and 140-foot campanile overlooking Humboldt Parkway; interior bedecked in colorful mosaics executed in Dlaždice Guastavino.[116] Building has passed through various owners after closure due to reorganization of inner-city parishes; much of original stained glass was stripped in 2004 by subsequent owner in violation of local preservation law, leading to criticism of city government for lax enforcement.[117] Building was named a Buffalo city landmark in 1978 and is a contributing property to the locally-[11] a Národní registr historických míst - uvedeny Hamlin Park Historic District.[118] |
| Sv. František z Assisi |  | 133 N. Ogden St. | 1908 | 1960 | Albert A. Rumschick | 2007 | Founded to serve the Italian-American residents of the multiethnic neighborhood of Lovejoy,[3] who arrived slightly later than the Germans and Irish who attended St. Agnes and Visitation, respectively, but who came to demographic dominance after the Second World War. In 2007, as part of the "Journey in Faith and Grace" program, the Buffalo diocese merged Lovejoy's three Catholic parishes into one, which was given the new name St. Katharine Drexel and which continues to meet in the former St. Francis church complex.[34] |
| Sv. František Xaverský |  | 157 East St. | 1859 | 1913 | Max Beierl | 2007 | The "Mother Church of Black Rock",[119] founded several years before the village's annexation by the City of Buffalo to serve a largely German community for whom the nearest Catholic churches were miles away. Congregation grew rapidly throughout 19th century; cemetery established 1864 still extant, now enclosed by Riverside Park. Current building is Lombard Romanesque style with basilica floor plan; sports triple-arched entrance with Tuscan columns and carvings of the signs of the Čtyři evangelisté, prominent raking corbel table under front gable;[120] tower rebuilt 1931 after structural deficiency discovered. Interior features mural paintings in sanctuary and side altars by Father Raphael Pfisterer, stained glass windows by F. X. Zettler Studios are representations of Stations of the Cross (only ones in Buffalo done in art glass),[3] organ is one of last ever built by Herman Schlicker.[121] School merged with that of neighboring St. John the Baptist parish in 1968, closed 1983; began sharing pastor with St. John the Baptist in 1995; parish dissolved as part of "Journey in Faith and Grace" downsizing program. Building listed on Národní registr historických míst v roce 2009[122] and is part of the also NRHP-listed Historická čtvrť Market Square.[123] Now operated as Buffalo Religious Arts Museum.[124] |
| St. Gerard |  | 1190 E. Delavan Ave. | 1902 | 1913; enlarged and tower added 1930 | Schmill & Gould | 2008 | Parish was originally German in makeup; initial church was replaced by present building for which ground was broken in 1911; building left only partially completed until 1930, when temporary roof was replaced by permanent one and bell tower was added. Church is Italian Romanesque in style with a design based on the Bazilika svatého Pavla za hradbami; built of Indiana limestone with niche statues of Saints Gerard a Joseph carved by local sculptor Angelo Gatti; interior decorated with 15 murals depicting the Tajemství růžence, monumental Ionic arcade along sides of nave, fresco painting of the Korunování Marie inside semidome of apse.[3] After dissolution of parish, building purchased by Catholic congregation in Norcross, Gruzie whose proposal to dismantle it piece by piece and ship it there for reassembly sparked contentious debate within the local preservation community[125] especially after Preservation Buffalo Niagara came out in favor of the plan;[126] stained glass windows, altar and pews were removed, but plan was ultimately scuttled due to lack of funds.[127] Building was resold to a Muslim group in 2017 and is currently undergoing conversion to a mosque.[128] |
| St. James |  | 3021 Bailey Ave. | 1916 | between 1935 and 1951[129] | neznámý | 2007 | Parish founded to serve mixed German/Irish community in an East Side area that was still semirural at the time but rapidly urbanizing. Ground was broken for the current building in 1926, but construction soon stalled due to lack of funding; congregation worshipped in the basement (the only completed portion of the building) until completion of present church, an unusual-looking Gothic Revival-style building with an enormous, deeply recessed portal dominating the front façade. Interior of church was renovated 1980[3] but parish population began to decline soon after; shared a pastor with St. Gerard parish for last two years of its existence.[130] After closure of church, building served for a time as a food pantry;[131] now home to a Baptist church serving the local Karen refugee community.[132] |
| Sv. Joachim |  | 64 Titus Ave. | 1902 | 1954 | Joseph Fronczak | 1993 | Founded in 1902 to serve a neighborhood that at the time was a small island of German-Americans amidst the vast Polish district of Buffalo's East Side, the congregation's original church on the same site burned in 1942 and, after a period spent worshiping in a temporary chapel in the basement of the parochial school, was replaced by the building seen here.[3] After the parish's dissolution, it served as home of the Free Spirit Missionary Baptist Church until 2014.[16] Now home to Baitul Mamoor Jam-e-Masjid, serving a Muslim congregation of mainly Bangladeshi origin. |
| Sv. Jan Křtitel |  | 60 Hertel Ave. | 1867 | 1927 | Oakley & Schallmo | 2007 | Second Catholic parish in Black Rock, founded to serve the Anglophone Irish community that heretofore had worshiped at the German-majority St. Francis Xavier; congregation grew rapidly throughout the 19th century despite 1885 foundation of Annunciation parish to which more than half of St. John the Baptist's former parish was divided out; complex continually expanded to accommodate growth and included a rectory, school, lyceum, and convent by 1914.[7] Church sports a mix of Italian Gothic[133] and Spanish Baroque Revival influences typical of the output of its architects, with exquisite terra cotta detailing both inside and out.[3] Building was named a Buffalo city landmark v roce 1978.[11] Parish merged with Annunciation as part of diocesan consolidation program; building's purchase two years later by Rev. Ronald Kirk as home of Witness Cathedral of Faith was controversial as congregation had recently been evicted from their previous home, the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church, as neglect of structural maintenance had led to the building being unsafe for occupancy.[134] Church is now vacant; former school is home to RiverRock Church, a congregation affiliated with the Buffalo Myanmar Indigenous Christian Fellowship.[135] |
| St. John the Evangelist |  | 2319 Seneca St. | 1907 | 1931 | Karl Schmill & Sons | 2009 | Founded by German-speaking faction at St. Teresa who petitioned bishop for establishment of new parish where services would be conducted in their language; however, rapid population growth in parish (and South Buffalo in general) in ensuing years[3] meant congregation had Anglophone majority by 1914. Church property surrounded by verdant Park Cazenovia;[7] present building of Ohio sandstone hearkens back to 14th-century Italian Romanesque style, lacking towers, spires or much exterior ornamentation. Interior contains exquisite mural paintings in apse depicting scenes from Kniha Zjevení, the work of artist Valdemar Kjeldgaard, as well as stained glass by Rambusch Zdobení Company.[136] Building purchased in 2014 by local real estate investor intending to convert it to an event space,[137] but was resold in 2016[16] to another development group for conversion to apartments and commercial space, possibly including a craft brewery.[138] |
| St. Joseph New Cathedral |  | 1015 Delaware Ave. | 1847 (as Katedrála svatého Josefa ) | 1915 | Aristide Leonori | 1976 | Intended as the new cathedral church of the Buffalo diocese, to replace the old one on Franklin Street downtown. The architect was a native of Řím unaccustomed to the considerations of design for cold climates like Buffalo's, and structural problems made themselves apparent almost immediately: the twin steeples were removed for safety reasons in 1927, and by the 1970s large sections of pews had to be roped off to protect congregants from the chunks of plaster that fell from the ceiling at regular intervals. Unwilling to pay the estimated cost of $2.2 million necessary to restore the building to a sound state, the diocese had it demolished, at which time the original St. Joseph's Cathedral reverted to its former role. Timon Towers, a senior citizens' apartment complex, occupies the site today.[139] |
| Svatá Lucie | No image available | 264 Swan St. | 1906 | shortly after 1914 | neznámý | 1960 | Served a working-class Campanese Italian community on the Near East Side[3] who had heretofore been attending St. Columba church on account of the distance to St. Anthony of Padua, Buffalo's only established Italian parish at the time; a former Presbyterian church that had been purchased for their use, along with two adjacent houses that served respectively as a rectory and a parochial school staffed by Sestry Panny Marie Namurské z Lockport, were replaced some time after 1914[7] by a larger building, magnificent and of Victorian style. The church, along with most of the 160-acre tract on which it stood, was demolished shortly after the parish's dissolution due to obnova měst of what was by then a blighted neighborhood. Most of its former congregants moved to other parts of the city;[140] those who didn't joined St. Columba parish.[24] The former site of the church remained vacant until 1991, when a tract of suburban-style housing was built there.[141] |
| St. Luke |  | 1300 Sycamore St. | 1908 | 1930 | Oakley & Schallmo | 1993 | Founded to serve the Polish population[7] in the northeast corner of the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, relatively far removed from other Polish Catholic churches at the time. Rapid growth of neighborhood in first quarter of the 20th century led to repeated cycle of construction of larger buildings to accommodate the congregation: original 1908 frame church was replaced the following year by a combination church/school, which in return was replaced by the current church. Architecture is Italian Romanesque in keeping with the firm's usual style; design based loosely on Stará bazilika svatého Petra; most prominently features a glazed polychrome terra cotta frieze over the entrance depicting Biblical figures from the New and Old Testaments.[3] Interior contains four large fresco murals painted in the 1950s by Jan Henryk de Rosen and restored in 2006.[142] Parish purchased after its dissolution by local restaurateur with help from anonymous benefactor and now houses St. Luke's Mission of Mercy,[143] a charitable organization providing food for impoverished neighborhood residents mimo jiné.[144] |
| St. Mary Magdalene |  | 1327 Fillmore Ave. | 1899 | 1907 | George A. Setter | 1978[145] | Parish founded to serve the well-to-do Germans of the East Side neighborhood of Humboldt Park, which was then without a conveniently located Catholic church; three-story combination church/school building built 1900 on land formerly belonging to wealthy miller and landowner George Urban razed in 1906 to make way for present building. Church is built of terra cotta brick[7] and is Romanesque in style; Moorish Revival cupolas that once topped its twin towers were replaced by current ones in simpler style after a 1964 windstorm.[90] Interior once contained mural paintings by Rochester, New York -based artist Albert Prentiss Ward imitating the style of Diego Velázquez,[3] již neexistuje. Now home of Antioch Baptist Church.[146] |
| Panny Marie Bolestné |  | 938 Genesee St. | 1872 | 1901; tower added 1905 | Adolf Adidos | 2007 | Also known as the Church of the Seven Dolors. Founded in connection with St. Mary Redemptorist's parish cemetery[7] once located nearby on Dodge Street,[147] as well as due to the lack of any other Catholic church in the newly urbanizing area of Humboldt Park. Construction of current (second) church took 15 years; its Rhenish Romanesque design is exemplified by multitudinous rounded towers[3] and was inspired by that of Katedrála v Worms;[148] said to be the finest example of the style in Buffalo. Façade is rusticated and of Buffalo Plains limestone. Was one of the largest German Catholic parishes in the city by 1914, with a parish population of about 5,000 and a pastor active in countering socialista political sympathies then popular among East Side German community. Current interior dates to $500,000 restoration after 1947 fire, which spared only the walls and the stained glass windows. Parish population began declining in the 1950s and '60s; in 1985, the diocese announced intentions to demolish the church due to high cost of maintenance,[149] which was prevented by its nomination as a Buffalo city landmark v roce 1986;[11] it's now home to a community center[150] and was also used for a time as a charter school.[151] Services were held in chapel in former rectory after sale of original church;[152] parish population continued declining and began to share ministry team and resources with St. Ann and SS. Columba-Brigid in 1992 as part of reorganization of "central city" parishes[26] before merging with the latter as part of "Journey in Faith and Grace" program.[27] |
| St. Mary Redemptorist |  | 225 Broadway | 1843 | 1844 | neznámý | 1981 | Founded by the German faction of the discord-plagued Lamb of God parish, parish served for many years as the headquarters for the local chapter of the Kongregace Nejsvětějšího Vykupitele, whose territory stretched east to Elmira a na sever do Toronto and whose itinerant priests held Masses for Catholics in rural communities too small to support their own churches. The St. Mary's complex, comprising the church, an adjacent convent, and St. Mary's Lyceum, was named a Buffalo city landmark v roce 1980,[11] however the church was destroyed by fire in December 1986, and the convent was demolished in 1990.[153] The site of the church and the adjacent convent are occupied today by private homes; St. Mary's Lyceum is still extant and is used as storage space by the Belmont Management Company.[154] |
| Svatý Matouš |  | 1066 E. Ferry St. | 1908 | 1928 | George A. Setter | 1993 | Parish was founded from portions of the territory of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Mary of Sorrows, St. Vincent de Paul, and St. Gerard[7] and served an East Side German congregation. Construction of permanent church began in 1910 but stalled soon afterward due to lack of funds; congregation worshiped in basement of current building, covered by a temporary roof, until work recommenced in 1927. Church is Baroque in style, built of Ohio sandstone and with a design reminiscent of Katedrála v Cáchách. Parish began sharing a priest with St. Bartholomew in 1989[3] and merged four years later with the neighboring parishes of Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Boniface, and St. Benedict the Moor under the new name of St. Martin de Porres.[42] Building has passed through the hands of several religious congregations and other owners since parish's dissolution[16] but is currently vacant. |
| St. Monica |  | 206 Orlando St. | 1912 | 1914 | Lansing, Bley & Lyman | 1995 | Parish met for its first two years in a rented storefront[7] before completion of its permanent building in the Seneca-Babcock neighborhood, an austere and utilitarian one that housed both church and school. Congregation was mixed Irish, Polish and German; parish boundaries were drawn to reflect geographic convenience rather than to encompass a particular ethnic enclave, an unusual phenomenon in Buffalo at the time.[155] Never particularly large in size, the parish was dissolved due to demographic changes in the neighborhood and the retirement of its leader, Msgr. William A. Setlock; the flock was given the choice to join the parishes of St. Stephen, St. Teresa, or SS. Rita & Patrick and voted for the latter.[156] The former St. Monica church building was demolished in 1999[157] and is now a vacant lot.[21] |
| Svatý Patrik |  | 39 Emslie St. | 1853 (as St. Vincent de Paul) | 1891 | Cyrus K. Porter & Son | 1981 | Founded for the community of working-class Irish industrial laborers that had gathered in the neighborhood known as The Hydraulics. Originally named St. Vincent de Paul in honor of the Otcové vincentů, a Catholic society to which then-Bishop John Timon belonged; took on the name St. Patrick in 1858 upon the dissolution of the original parish by that name. Had a majority-black congregation in its last years and was the home parish of Ronald Walker, the first African-American Catholic deacon in Buffalo, ordained in 1980. The interior contained a series of 14 paintings depicting the life of Saint František z Assisi, the work of artist Marco Silvestri, and was built of Medina sandstone in the Gothic style.[158] Parish was merged with St. Rita's in 1981 due to shrinking congregation and church building was demolished the following year.[159] The friary next door remained in operation until 2018, when the diocese sold it.[160] |
| St. Patrick (Old) |  | 41 Broadway[161] | 1837 | 1841 | neznámý | 1858 | Buffalo's second Catholic parish chronologically, Irish-American in ethnic makeup; seceded from Lamb of God due to their desire to conduct church business in English rather than German.[3] Rev. William Whelan was a střídmost advocate and preached strongly against the then-common practice of railroad contractors and other industrial workers being paid partially in whiskey. Sloužil jako prokatedrála for the Buffalo Diocese from its inception in 1847 until services began to be held at St. Joseph's Cathedral, whereupon the parish was dissolved and the building was donated to the Sestry lásky and became home of St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum.[7] The Buffalo Central Library occupies the site today. |
| Sv. Rita |  | 190 Fillmore Ave. | 1919 | 1920 | George Dietel | 1981 | Founded in 1919 to serve Buffalo's Slovak-American Catholic community, who had previously worshiped with other immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the far-flung St. Elizabeth's parish in Black Rock.[3] Parish merged in 1981 with St. Patrick's on Seymour Street; the merged parish continued using St. Rita's building.[21] |
| SS. Rita & Patrick | | 190 Fillmore Ave. | 1981 | 1920 (as home of predecessor parish St. Rita) | George Dietel[3] | 2007 | Short-lived parish was the result of a 1981 merger between St. Rita and St. Patrick; the congregation of St. Monica was added to the fold after the 1995 dissolution of their parish.[21] The diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program saw SS. Rita & Patrick merge with St. Valentine, Holy Apostles SS. Peter & Paul, Precious Blood, and St. Stephen parishes to form St. Clare.[6] Church building is of a simple Gothic Revival design, with stained glass by local glazier Jozef Mazur[162] and an interior sanctuary decorated with stencil art, the work of Slovak artisans. The central tower is flat-roofed and steepleless[163] a přelité a křížová bottony. Building is now home to Try Jesus Ministries, a nondenominational African-American congregation. |
| Svatý Štěpán | | 197 Elk St. | 1875 | 1888 | Fred W. Humble | 2007 | The second Catholic parish to be established in the First Ward, St. Stephen was sited in the eastern part of the neighborhood for the convenience of those who heretofore had to walk long distances to get to St. Brigid. The current Gothic Revival-style building, erected in 1888, had an open-plan interior without pillars and once contained an organ built by the Garrett House Organ Company of Buffalo.[3] Its steeples were removed C. 1932 due to concerns about their structural integrity. As part of the diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program, St. Stephen's parish merged with those of SS. Rita and Patrick, St. Valentine, Holy Apostles SS. Peter & Paul, and Precious Blood, taking the name St. Clare[6] and continuing to use the building for worship until 2016, when St. Clare itself merged with St. Teresa. Building was sold in 2017 to a local sound engineer who plans to turn it into a recording studio[164] a byl uveden na Národní registr historických míst v roce 2018.[112] |
| Svatý Valentýn |  | 528 South Park Ave. | 1920 | 1923 | George Dietel | 2007 | Served a small Polish-American community that had settled in the heretofore monolithically Irish neighborhood of the First Ward.[3] Merged with four other churches as part of the Buffalo diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program to form the new St. Clare parish.[6] The building was purchased in 2009 by Ellicott Development,[165] who is marketing it for reuse as office or educational space.[166] |
| Svatý Vincenc de Paul |  | 2033 Main St. | 1864 | 1926 | Thomas, Perry & McMullen | 1993 | Parish founded to serve an East Side neighborhood relatively far removed from downtown, at the time populated sparsely and largely by Germans who worked in the nearby limestone quarries. Growth was initially slow but accelerated beginning in the 1880s; congregation was majority English-speaking by 1914.[7] Present building is in a combination of the Romanesque and Byzantine styles; interior walls are faced in a combination of buff brick and salt-glazed Dlaždice Guastavino; sanctuary features mural paintings and mosaics by artist Felix Lieftuchter. Decline in parish population came with demographic changes on the Near East Side after World War II; congregation initially resisted[26] but ultimately assented to the diocese's proposal for a merger with the neighboring parish of Blessed Trinity.[3] Budovu koupil Canisius College upon the parish's dissolution and is now used by them as the Montante Cultural Center,[167] an event space. |
| Proměnění |  | 929 Sycamore St. | 1893 | 1897 | Karl Schmill | 1993 | Parish cleaved off the territory of St. Adalbert;[7] sloužil Austrian Polish komunita, která se usadila v severní části čtvrti Broadway-Fillmore.[168] Rychlý růst farnosti si vynutil stavbu stálého kostela téměř okamžitě po založení farnosti; Design Gothic Revival zahrnuje vitrážová okna korunovaná medailony ve vzoru větrníkového sloupku, pouze jejich příklad v Buffalu;[3] interiér obsahoval řadu nástěnných maleb od Marion Rzeznik a Jozef Mazur[169] včetně jednoho zachycujícího legendární mariánské zjevení nad Visla v průběhu roku 1920 Bitva o Varšavu.[170] Demografické změny v sousedství na konci 20. století vedly k uzavření školy v roce 1985 a stavbě kostelů v roce 1990; sbor, do té doby až 50 členů, se setkal na mši v kapli budovy bývalé školy za poslední tři roky existence farnosti. Plánovaná demolice kostela byla zamezena jeho nominací na památku města Buffalo a jeho prodejem místní neziskové organizaci, která v budově plánovala zřídit Montessori školku,[171] ačkoli regulační překážky vedly k dlouhým zpožděním při restaurátorských pracích[172] a nakonec zatykač na nového vlastníka kvůli porušení stavebního řádu, který byl zrušen až po zahájení oprav střechy v roce 2007.[173] Budova byla v roce 2017 prodána novému majiteli[16] ale zůstává prázdný. |
| Navštívení Panny Marie |  | 198 Greene St. | 1898 | 1899 | Albert A. Post | 2007 | Druhá katolická farnost v sousedství Lovejoy, která byla převážně německou enklávou, ale měla také značnou irskou menšinu, která se cítila nepohodlně při bohoslužbách v již zavedeném sboru sv. Anežky. Budova sídlila v kostele i ve škole a původně měla čtyři podlaží, včetně suterénu; horní patro hlediště prostor byl odstraněn v roce 1937 kvůli strukturálnímu úpadku z odložené údržby budovy.[3] Farnost se spojila se sv. Anežkou a sv. Františkem z Assisi a vytvořila novou farnost sv. Kathariny Drexelové, která se schází v jejím bývalém domě na ulici North Ogden.[34] Budovu koupila v roce 2009 Mezinárodní buddhistická asociace Sangha Bhiksu[88] v úmyslu jej použít jako klášter,[174] ale prodal ji v roce 2017[16] aniž by ji někdy obsadili. V současné době je plánováno na budoucí domov Madinah Masjid, první Lovejoyovy mešity. |
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