Holy Innocents Church (New York City)

Church of the Holy Innocents

In 2012
Location New York, New York
Country United States
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website http://www.innocents.com
History
Founded 1868
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Patrick Keely
Style Gothic Revival
Administration
Diocese Archdiocese of New York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Rev. Louis Van Thanh
Pastor(s) Rev. Leonard M. Villa
135-9 West 36th Street
General information
Town or city New York, New York
Country United States of America
Construction started 1924[1]
Cost $600,000[1]
Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Design and construction
Architect Emery Roth 19 West 40th Street[1]

The Church of the Holy Innocents is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 126 West 37th Street at Broadway, Manhattan, New York City.[2]

History

The parish was established in 1868.[3] The present edifice was completed in 1870 using the Gothic Revival style of architecture. The first pastor engaged Constantino Brumidi to create a monumental fresco over the main altar. He later decorated the Great Rotunda of the U. S. Capitol Building. In the early years cows roamed the streets and open pastures around Holy Innocents. As the city rapidly expanded northward the community, known as the "Tenderloin", teemed with immigrants from Europe. By the early 1900s the area was known for newspaper publishing (The New York Herald) and theaters (The Metropolitan Opera House (39th St)). Holy Innocents was called the "actor's church". Eugene O'Neill, the playwright, was baptized in the church in 1888. Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes had the church build a twenty-storey storage and loft building at 135-9 West 36th Street in 1924 to designs by the eminent Emery Roth 19 West 40th Street for $600,000.[1][4]

Pastor Rev. Dr. Richard Brennan transferred here in 1890 from being pastor since 1875 of St. Rose of Lima's Old Church (New York City),[5] after the death of the former pastor, Rev. Larkin.[6]

In addition to serving as a regional parish, the church has been a location for daily Mass in the authorized extraordinary form of the Roman Rite (the 1962 edition of the Tridentine Mass) since 2009.[7]

Pastors

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).
  2. ↑ The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
  3. ↑ Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.330.
  4. ↑ official history
  5. 1 2 Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.369.
  6. 1 2 "Father Larkin's Successor," New York Times, January 13, 1891 (Retrieved 20 May 2011); Excerpt: "Dr. Richard Brennan, who for twenty years has been of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Rose of Lima on Cannon Street, has been transferred to the Church of St Rose of Lima, on Cannon Street, has been transferred to the Church of the Holy Innocents on West Thirty-seventh Street, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of the Rev. John Larkin. Dr. Brennan is a native of this city and graduate of St. Francis Xavier's College. He made his theological studies at St. John's College, Fordham, and was ordained by Archbishop Hughes in 1857. Dr. Brennan will be succeeded in the pastorate of the Church of St. Rose of Lima by the Rev. Edward T. McGinley, who is also a graduate of St. Francis Xavier's College. He was formerly pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart at Highland Falls."
  7. ↑ The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny » Post Topic » New Daily Low Mass in Manhattan Sthughofcluny.org, (Retrieved 14 Feb 2014).
  8. ↑ 50 Priests Give Last Rites At 'Normandie' Fire; Catholic Hospitals Also Lend Aid The Observer, Rockford, Illinois, Feb. 22, 1942. (Retrieved 14 Feb 2014)

Coordinates: 40°45′7.85″N 73°59′17.08″W / 40.7521806°N 73.9880778°W / 40.7521806; -73.9880778

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