Completed 1868 | Phone +1 212-673-0900 Construction started 1867 | |
Address 213 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002, USA Architectural styles Byzantine Revival architecture, Victorian architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture Similar Immaculate Conception of the Ble, Church of the Nativity, St Margaret Mary's Ch, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, St Pius V's Church | ||
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de los Dolores) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 105 Pitt Street and Stanton Street, Manhattan, New York City. The area was formerly known as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany).
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History
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was established in 1867 as Our Lady of the Seven Dolors Church and staffed by the Capuchin Friars. It served as the national parish for the large number of German Catholics who immigrated to New York in the late nineteenth century. Later it became a parish for Italian and then Hispanic immigrants.
Building
Our Lady of Sorrows was built 1867-1868 in the Victorian, Byzantine Revival, and Romanesque Revival style by Henry Engelbert. Archbishop John McCloskey dedicated the church on September 6, 1868.
School
The parish school was among 27 closed by the Archdiocese under the Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan in January 2011.