St. John the Evangelist Church (Manhattan)
The Church of St. John the Evangelist | |
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John V. Van Pelt, Associated of 333 Fourth Avenue (for 1907 school); George J. Sole of 110 East 42nd Street (for 1947 garage)[1] | |
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St. John the Evangelist Church, Manhattan |
The Church of St. John the Evangelist is a
Parish
The parish was established in 1830.[
First building
A modest frame church was built and dedicated 9 May 1841 by the Rev. John Hughes, administrator of the diocese. Tickets were sold to the dedication to ease the parish's debt level, managed by a lay Board of Trustees, but to no avail and the property mortgage was finally foreclosed on and the church sold at auction. The stress is said to have contributed to the death that year of the church's pastor, the Rev. Felix Larkin. The experience was blamed on the management of the trustees and this incident is said to have played a significant role in abolishing lay trusteeship, which occurred shortly thereafter. The young and energetic Rev. Michael A. Curran was appointed to raise funds for the devastated parish, and shortly fitted up an old college hall as a temporary church. Fr. Curran continued raising funds to buy back the church during the
Second building
Rev. James McMahon (later of
Third building
With the opening of St. Patrick's in 1879, St. John's parish was moved to East 55th Street at First Avenue. Under Monsignor James J. Flood, a new church was begun in 1880 and completed in 1886.[4] A brick garage was built 1947 at 344-348 E 56th Street to the designs of architect George J. Sole of 110 East 42nd Street for $900.[1]
Present location
The 1886 church stood until 1969, when it was demolished to allow construction of the Archdiocese of New York Chancery building, which contains a new space within the building for the church.[5] In 2015, the parish of Our Lady of Peace merged with St John's to form a new parish named St. John the Evangelist-Our Lady of Peace. The Our Lady of Peace church building was subsequently sold in February 2017, to the Egyptian Christian Coptic Orthodox Church community.[6] It then became St. Mary & St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church.[7]
School
The church had a four-story brick and stone school at the southwest corner of First Avenue and 56th Street built in 1907 to the designs of architect Franklin A Green and
Pastors
- 1840-September 1842: Rev. John Maginnis
- 1842-1844: Rev. William Nightingale
- 1844-?: Rev. Felix Larkin
- ?-May, 1850: Rev. Michael A. Curran
- 1850-1879: Rev. James McMahon[2]
- 1879-?: Msgr. James J. Flood, who was assisted by Rev. John T. O'Reilly and others.[8]
- 2023: Msgr. Douglas J. Mathers
External links
- St. John the Evangelist official website
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010). Archived 15 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f Lafort, Remigius. 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.... (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.339-340.
- ^ The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
- ^ a b "Church of St. John the Evangelist". NYC Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
- ^ "Cooke Dedicates East Side Church". The New York Times. April 15, 1973. p. 44. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ Dos Santos, Juliann (February 15, 2017). "Pope Francis Blesses Our Lady of Peace Church Sale to Egyptian Coptics". Catholic New York.
- ^ St. Mary & St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church
- New York Times, Jun 11, 1904. Retrieved 21 July 2011