File:Our Lady of Charity RC Church Holy Family Site - fmr Holy Family RC Church - Buffalo, New York - 20200520.jpg
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English: The Holy Family worship site of Our Lady of Charity RC Church, 1901 South Park Avenue at Tifft Street, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. An imposing building of rough-cut limestone, the building was described by James Napora in Houses of Worship: A Guide to the Religious Architecture of Buffalo, New York as one of the finest examples of Romanesque Revival church architecture in Buffalo, architects Lansing & Beierl gifted this building with an arcaded entrance of three round arches supported by stylized Corinthian columns with cushion capitals, as well as corbel tables underlying the front gable under the hood-molded rose window and also featuring on the symmetrical twin steeples, which additionally sport arcaded belfries with columns similar to those at the entrance and octagonal pyramidal steeples topped with copper finials. Holy Family was an independent parish for the first century plus of its existence: it was founded in 1902 due to an influx of residents into the Triangle neighborhood of South Buffalo caused by the opening of the Lackawanna Steel Plant soon earlier; unlike many Catholic parishes in Buffalo, the church building seen here, built in 1908, was the first and only one they'd ever worshiped in. Reflecting the traditionally Irish-American ethnic composition of its congregation, the murals in the interior (the work of Danish artist Holvag Rambush) depict scenes from the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, while the sanctuary windows came from the Tiroler Glasmalerei company of Innsbruck. In 2010, as part of the Buffalo Diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program, Holy Family merged with St. Ambrose and St. Agatha to form the new Our Lady of Charity parish; the former two buildings are still used as worship sites (two Masses each on Sunday, with St. Ambrose hosting three of five midweek Masses as well as Vigil on Saturday evening); the St. Agatha complex was used by the parish for office space and also housed a Head Start education center, but was sold to a private developer in 2018. |
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