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Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church (Manhattan)

20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United StatesChristian organizations established in 1927Gustave E. Steinback church buildingsInwood, ManhattanManhattan church stubs
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1928Roman Catholic churches in ManhattanSchool buildings completed in 1949
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, located at 81 Arden Street at Dongan Place, between Broadway and Sherman Avenue in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The parish was established in 1927 and a church was built in 1928 to designs by Gustave E. Steinback.

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Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church (Manhattan)
Arden Street, New York Manhattan

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Arden Street 71
10040 New York, Manhattan
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