The Church of St. John Nepomucene is a Roman Catholic parish located on East 66th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.[2] The founders of the church were recent immigrants from Slovakia, who began meeting in St. Brigid's Parish at 8th Street and Avenue B in about 1891 and established the Society of St. Matthew to organize their own parish.[3]
| Church of St. John Nepomucene | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Province | New York |
| Location | |
| Location | 411 East 66th Street, Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA |
| State | New York |
| Geographic coordinates | 40°45′50″N 73°57′30″W / 40.764005°N 73.95847°W |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | John V. Van Pelt[1] |
| Type | Church, school and rectory |
| Style | Romanesque Revival |
| Website | |
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| The Church of St. John Nepomucene | |
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 Western side | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
| Town or city | Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA |
| Country | United States of America |
| Cost | $300,000 (for church, school, and rectory)[1] |
| Client | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | John V. Van Pelt[1] |
The parish was established in 1895 from within St. Elizabeth of Hungary parish, which was centered on its church on 83rd Street.[4] The church, school and rectory were built for $300,000.[1][5]
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- ^ a b c d "Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) May 6, 1946 - ^ David W. Dunlap, From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 215.
- ^ Saint John Nepomucene, About->History, retrieved July 22, 2020
- ^ 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.340.
- ^ 411 E. 66th St. & First Avenue (1925)pageNum_Recordset1=http://www.rafaelguastavino.com/index2.php?pageNum_Recordset1=52&totalRows_Recordset1=25152&totalRows_Recordset1=251 Rafael Guastavino's Architecture in New York #211 Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine (ACCESSED Dec 21, 2010)
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