Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (Chicago)

Coordinates: 41°44′42″N 87°32′51″W / 41.74500°N 87.54750°W / 41.74500; -87.54750
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This article is about the Polish church at 83rd and South Shore Drive on the South Side. For the Redemptionist church on Cleveland Avenue on the North Side, see St. Michael's Church, Old Town, Chicago.
St. Michael's
Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church
Neogothic[citation needed]
Groundbreaking1907 (1907)[citation needed]
Completed1909 (1909)[1]
Closed2021[3]
Specifications
Capacity2000[1]
Administration
MetropolisChicago
ArchdioceseChicago

St. Michael (Polish: Kościół Świętego Michała) is a church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The current church is located at E. 83rd Street and S. South Shore Drive in South Chicago, a neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

It is a prime example of the so-called "

Immaculate Conception, it is one of the two monumental Polish churches dominating over the South Chicago
neighborhood.

History

Founded in 1892 as a Polish parish in Chicago to relieve overcrowding at

Immaculate Conception.[2]

Bishop Paul Rhode, the first Polish auxiliary bishop in Chicago, served as pastor from 1897 until he was named bishop of Green Bay in 1915. The parish continued to serve Polish steel workers until the steel mills closed in the 1980s. Today the parish as well as the neighborhood are predominantly Latino.

Bishop

priesthood by John Cardinal Cody on May 10, 1978,[4]
until 1983.

The church closed down in 2021.[5]

Architecture

The altar at St. Michaels

The church was built between 1907 through 1909 designed by

communion rail is carved in oak
with a white marble top. The interior of the church can seat approximately 2,000 people.

Interesting to music enthusiasts is the grand piano which belonged to famed composer,

Ignace Jan Paderewski
.

A shrine to the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the National Patron of the people of Poland, is located in the sanctuary and was constructed in Poland in the early 1960s.

The magnificent

last judgement
.

Church in architecture books

  • Sinkevitch, Alice (2004). The AIA Guide to Chicago. Harvest Books.
  • McNamara, Denis R. (2005). Heavenly City: The Architectural Tradition of Catholic Chicago. Liturgy Training Publications.
  • Lane, George A. (1982). Chicago Churches and Synagogues: An Architectural Pilgrimage. Loyola Press.
  • Kantowicz, Edward R. (2007). The Archdiocese of Chicago: A Journey of Faith. Booklink.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Parish History". Chicago: Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. Archived from the original on 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  2. ^ a b c "St. Michael Church History". Chicago: Polish Genealogical Society of America. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2012-10-15. Reprinted from A History of the Parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Chicago: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. 1980.
  3. ^ "St. Michael the Archangel Church celebrates a final mass". WGN News.
  4. ^ "Bishop Thomas John Joseph Paprocki". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  5. ^ "St. Michael the Archangel Church celebrates a final mass". WGN News.

External links

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