Built 1853 Opened 1853 Added to NRHP 14 December 1978 | NRHP Reference # 78001851 Phone +1 716-634-3420 | |
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Location 4125 Union Rd., Cheektowaga, New York Address 4125 Union Rd, Buffalo, NY 14225, USA Similar All Saints Roman Catholic, Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, Blessed Trinity Roman C, St Francis de Sales Roman C, Holy Angels Church | ||
Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians, also known as the Maria Hilf Chapel, is a historic Roman Catholic church located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Buffalo.
Description
The Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians was constructed in 1853, in the Greek Revival style, as a religious center for the rural Alsatian community and pilgrimage site for urban Alsatian, German, Polish, and Italian immigrants to Our Lady Help of Christians. The interior features a barrel vault ceiling, wooden church mobiliary, frescos, paintings, and other features that reflect an Alsatian village church.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
References
Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel (Cheektowaga, New York) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA