- St. Michael the Archangel Church
St. Michael the Archangel is a Roman Catholic church located at 3114 Scranton Road in the historic Tremont
neighborhood ofCleveland, Ohio . The church is named in honor ofSt. Michael the Archangel and was completed in 1892.The congregation was founded in 1881 as a
mission of Ohio City, Cleveland'sSt. Mary's On-The-Flats to serve a growing Germanimmigrant population on Cleveland's west side. The original church andschool building was constructed in 1883 but burned on June 29, 1881. The current church which had itscornerstone laid in 1889 was completed five years ahead of schedule in 1892.The church is considered a good example of High Victorian Gothic architecture with its
two towers of unequalheight andthree archways. An architecturally notableschool adjacent to the church began construction in 1906 and was completed in 1907. For many years the church was one of the most costly and artistically notable churches in the Cleveland Diocese.The church reached its peak size in the 1950 at which time only 25% of the parishioners were of German
descent . The first Spanish mass was said in 1971 for the growing number ofHispanic parishioners. Thecongregation now is mostly Latin American. The church now offers Masses in both English and Spanish. An annualGood Friday Procession ends at St. Michael's. Theparish has become a center ofHispanic culture inCleveland [cite web |url=http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SMC1/ |title=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - St. Michael Church|publisher=Case Western Reserve University |accessdate=2008-08-17] [cite web |url=http://www.cleveland.catholicnet.com/parish/stmichael-44113/ |title=St. Michael's Parish Website |accessdate=2008-08-17] [cite web|url=http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SMO |title=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - St. Mary's On-The-Flats |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |accessdate=2008-08-17] [cite web|url=http://dioceseofcleveland.org/hispanicministry/what%27s_happening.htm |title=Hispanic Ministry - What's Happening |publisher= Diocese of Cleveland |accessdate=2008-08-17] .References
External links
* [http://www.cleveland.catholicnet.com/parish/stmichael-44113/ Official site St. Michael the Archangel]
* [http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/hispanicministry/images/archiv5.jpgLiturgical Dancers carefully dress the altar at St. Michael the Archangel Church in Cleveland for the Eucharistic celebration]
* [http://www.cleveland.catholicnet.com/parish/stmichael-44113/ St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Cleveland, Ohio Website]
* [http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/ The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland]
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