Posted on 01/28/2021 6:50:14 PM PST by marshmallow
Historic All Saints Church — called the “St. Patrick’s of Harlem” — is about to be sold, The Post has learned.
The Catholic Archdiocese of New York shuttered the church in 2015 and the landmark building, along with its adjacent school and parish house, which occupy an entire block, have stood empty since.
A spokesman for the Archdiocese would not provide any details on the pending sale.
“There is no final agreement in place; things are in process,” said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese.
The church at East 129th Street and Madison Avenue dates to 1883 and was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect behind St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Smithsonian Institution’s “castle building” in Washington, DC.
“Among the many churches he designed during his long career, the Church of All Saints has been called his best,” the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission said in its 2007 report declaring the church, school and parish house as landmarks.
The Gothic Revival church has a giant rosette window above its main entrance, similar to the facade of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and a distinctive bell tower. The bell was inscribed “Queen of All Saints, pray for us.”
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DeBlasio will insist that it be turned into a mosque.
Sad. In a sane world, the Vatican would have sent over 10 times the normal compliment of Priests and the money they needed and had them start working in the neighborhood.
Most certainly will probably be a mosque.
The most devout Catholic POTUS EVER! [BiXiden] along with Pope Marx can’t save the compound?
The United States has indeed become missionary territory.
"The Landmarks Preservation approved a church proposal in 2019 to remove crosses, iconographic stained glass including two Tiffany windows and other items considered sacred at the building so the Archdiocese could “de-consecrate” the building and sell it. The Archdiocese said it would store the items for future possible use."
Why not an abortion clinic and a Church of Satan?
Its doors were shuttered in 2015, its going to cost a fortune to restore by now.
Whoever buys the property might have to wreck it and build on the land.
No vocations, no priests.
If young people don’t want to be priests, there will be none.
That was my first thought.
Well, they can try and maybe even do it, but since the true church is not a building built by hands, it really accomplishes nothing ultimately.
God will have the final say, whether the muslims like it or not.
I remember as a kid walking around the neighborhood just passing the time until it was movie time at the Apollo theater. Harlem was scary then, and became even more scary later on. I actually lived in Harlem for about 2 years, but was always scared to go out.
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