Church of Our Lady of Peace

This article is about the New York City church. For the Connecticut church, see Our Lady of Peace Church (Stratford, Connecticut). For other churches, see Our Lady of Peace (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 40°45′46″N 73°57′49″W / 40.762908°N 73.963536°W / 40.762908; -73.963536

Church of Our Lady of Peace

(2013)
General information
Architectural style Victorian Gothic[1]
Town or city Manhattan, New York City
Country United States of America
Construction started 1886
Cost $200,000[1]
Client Church Extension Committee of the Presbytery of New York[1]
Design and construction
Architect Samuel A. Warner

The Church of Our Lady of Peace is a historic Roman Catholic parish church of the Archdiocese of New York, located at 239-241 East 62nd Street[2] between Second and Third Avenues in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1886-87 at the cost of $200,000,[1] and was designed by Samuel A. Warner in the Victorian Gothic style[3][4] for the Church Extension Committee of the Presbytery of New York. It served as the sanctuary for the Church of the Redeemer, a German-speaking congregation, then subsequently became the Bethlehem Lutheran Church[4] before finally becoming the home of the newly formed Italian Madonna della Pace parish in 1918.[3][4]

The church, which has been called a "gem",[4] is located in the Treadwell Farm Historic District, designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967.[1]

In November 2014, the Archdiocese announced that the Church of Our Lady of Peace was one of 31 neighborhood parishes which would be merged into other parishes.[5] Our Lady of Peace was to be merged into the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 348 East 55th Street.[6]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission "Treadwell Fram Historic District Designation Report" (December 13, 1967)
  2. ↑ The parish office is located at 237 East 62nd Street
  3. 1 2 Our Lady of Peace NYC American Guild of Organists webpage
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dunlap, David W. (2004) From Abyssinian to Zion. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12543-7, p.165
  5. ↑ Otterman, Sharon. "Tears and Heartache for New York’s Catholics as Cardinal Shuts Churches" New York Times (November 2, 2014)
  6. ↑ "List of Merging Churches and Those That Will Cease Regular Services" New York Times (November 2, 2014)

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