
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, South Trenton.
This is a new picture I took yesterday.
A very nice looking building.
Click on the picture and fill your screen with Sacred Heart
on a Sunny Summer Sunday Afternoon:)
This is from the Sacred Heart site:
Sacred Heart was dedicated on June 30th,1889 by the Most Rev
Michael S. O’Farrell, first bishop of Trenton. On the north side
of the church a rectory was built and on the south side a Catholic
club house was built, both matching in design of the new Church of
the Sacred Heart. The Catholic Club where gentlemen could be molded
according to the highest standards was dear to the heart of Msgr.
Hogan. He achieved his ambition so successfully that it was a cultural
center for the men of Trenton for many years.
Romanesque Revival in style, Sacred Heart Church was designed by
Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896), himself an Irish immigrant. He
was 19th century America’s most prominent and prolific Catholic
architect - the designer of many cathedrals in Boston, Hartford,
Buffalo, Albany and Chicago, as well as some 150 churches, including
ones in New Brunswick, Jersey City, Mount Holly and Newark.
In 1918, Msgr. Hogan’s successor, Rev. Peter J. Hart built a
modern school and convent adjacent to the rectory. On June 17, 1966
Msgr. Leonard R. Toomey was appointed the thirteenth pastor of the
Church of the Sacred Heart (formerly St. John). In 1972 the stores,
houses and a tavern adjacent to the Catholic Club were purchased from
the City of Trenton through an Urban Renewal Program and transformed
into a landscaped parking yard for the parish, thus completing the
current Parish Campus.
1 comment:
sacred heart church was VERY irish.
there is a huge stained glass window of st. patrick in the left front (near the altar) of the church.
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