Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (New York City)

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
General information
Architectural style	Victorian Romanesque Revival Byzantine Revival
Town or city	New York, New York
Country	United States of America
Construction started	1867[1]
Completed	1868[1]
Design and construction
Client	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Architect	Henry Engelbert[1]

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 105 Pitt Street and Stanton Street, Manhattan, New York City.^[2] The area was formerly known as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany).^[1] It was established in 1867 as Our Lady of the Seven Dolors Church and staffed by the Capuchin Friars. The church is also known as Nuestra Señora de los Dolores.^[1] It served as the national parish for the large number of German Catholics who immigrated to New York in the late nineteenth century. Later it became a parish for Italian and then Hispanic immigrants.^[1][3]

Building

Our Lady of Sorrows was built 1867-1868 to the Victorian, Byzantine and Romanesque designs by Henry Engelbert. Archbishop John McCloskey dedicated the church on September 6, 1868.^[1]

School

The parish school was among 27 closed by Archbishop Dolan in the Roman Catholic New York Archdiocese on 11th of January 2011.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Our Lady of Sorrows Church Organs (Accessed 14 January 2011)
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.361.
4. ^ Alice McQuillan, "New York Archdiocese to Close 27 Schools," NBC New York, 11 January 2011 (Accessed 7 February 2011)
5. ^ Archdiocese of New York, "RECONFIGURATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING “AT-RISK” SCHOOLS ACCEPTED BY ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK," Official Press Release, 11 January 2011 (Accessed 7 February 2011)