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St. Michael's Church (Brooklyn)

1870 establishments in New York (state)20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United StatesByzantine Revival architecture in New York CityReligious organizations established in 1870Roman Catholic churches completed in 1905
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1921Roman Catholic churches in BrooklynRomanesque Revival church buildings in New York CitySource attributionSunset Park, Brooklyn
St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Sunset Park
St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Sunset Park

The Church of St. Michael is a Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 352 42nd Street at Fourth Avenue in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Before the founding of St. Michaels's parish in 1870, Catholics in the area had to travel to mass at either St. John the Evangelist at 21st St. or St. Patrick's in Fort Hamilton. The first pastor was Rev. Michael J. Hickey.The current church was built 1905, and was designed by noted church architect Raymond F. Almirall. The exterior is in early Romanesque. Often referred to as Brooklyn's own "Sacré-Cœur", the domed tower once was the second tallest building in Brooklyn after the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower, until a late 2000s high rise development claimed that title. St. Michael's parochial school opened in 1886; it closed in 2005.

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St. Michael's Church (Brooklyn)
42nd Street, New York Brooklyn

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