St. Joachim's Church (Manhattan)

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St. Joachim Church (around 1914)
St. Joachim's Church (Manhattan)
General information
Architectural style Victorian
Italianate
Romanesque Revival
Town or city Manhattan, New York
Country United States of America
Coordinates 40°42′45″N73°59′59″W / 40.71250°N 73.99972°W / 40.71250; -73.99972
Completed1888 [1]
Demolished1967
Cost$158,000
Client Archdiocese of New York

The Church of St. Joachim was a Catholic parish church under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, located at 26 Roosevelt Street, in Manhattan, New York City.

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The parish was established in 1888 by the Missionary Fathers of St. Charles Borromeo, [2] with the Rev. F. Morelli, C.S.C.B., as its first pastor. It was the first national parish in the United States founded for Italians, who had previously had to worship in the basements of the Catholic churches made up of Irish-American congregants. [3] The total debt of the property was $158,000.

Because of the increased parish numbers, the Rev. Vincent Jannuzzi, C.S.C.B., founded St. Rocco's Chapel at 18 Catherine Slip as a mission chapel of St. Joachim Parish, as well as the Madonna Day Nursery on Cherry Street, which opened in 1910 and was staffed by the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine. The 1913-1914 parish statistics listed 1,000 baptisms, 250 marriages and 400 confirmations. [2]

The parish had a brief connection with Mother Cabrini, who was helped by the Scalabrini Missionaries upon her arrival in the United States in 1889. The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whom she had founded, were the first teachers at the St. Joachim parish school when it was opened. They withdrew from the school in 1892. [4]

St. Joachim's was home to the St. Rocco Society, founded in 1889 by immigrants from Potenza. The society's hand crafted statue of St. Rocco from Italy was housed at St. Joachim's. Every year the Society celebrated Saint Rocco's Feast with a procession. After the demolition of Saint Joachim's Church due to urban renewal, the statue was moved to Saint Joseph's Church on Monroe Street and the celebration continued there. With the closing in 2015 of St. Joseph's, the statue and Feast was moved to Most Precious Blood Church at 113 Baxter Street, where it is held today. [5]

Building

The midblock gabled brick Victorian Italianate church with Romanesque details "in the Roman style" was designed with a seating capacity of 800. [2]

In 1914, the parish consisted of 18,000 Italian immigrants and second-generation Italian-Americans. [2] The church owned three buildings then, of which one it had planned to turn into a parochial school. [2] The Romanesque church tower, built 1888, at 22 Roosevelt Street "was a harbinger for Judson Memorial Church". [1]

Closing

By 1967 the City of New York had decided to build a housing development on Park Row as part of its urban renewal program. They acquired a six-block area for this project, which included the parish property, and the church was torn down. The parish was merged by the Archdiocese of New York with the nearby St. Joseph's Church, founded by the Scalabrini Fathers around 1923, with Father Januzzi as the first pastor. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dunlap, David W. (2004). From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press. p.  213. ISBN   0-231-12543-7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, 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 Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women. . (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.337-338.
  3. 1 2 "Church of St. Joachim (Roman Catholic)". American Guild of Organists NYC.
  4. "At the end of August, 1892, Mother Cabrini had to remove her Missionaries from the school.33 The formal severance came in a letter of September 5, 1892: The Gentlemen Trustees of the Church of Saint Joachim in Roosevelt Street having ..." See Mary Louise Sullivan, "Mother Cabrini: Italian Immigrant of the Century," (1992), p.94
  5. St. Rocco Society of Potenza