Our Lady of Victory Church (Brooklyn, New York)

The Church of Our Lady of Victory
General information
Town or city Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Country United States of America
Construction started 1891[1]
Completed 1895[1]
Design and construction
Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Architect Thomas E. Houghton[1]

The Church of Our Lady of Victory is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located at Throop Avenue and McDonough Street, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The parish was established in 1868.[2]

Buildings

The church was built 1891-1895 to the designs of architect Thomas E. Houghton.[1]

Dedication

There are at least three Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic churches in New York City. Brooklyn's appears to be the oldest both for the parish and architecture. Bronx's "Victory" dedication origin is unclear but it is believed to celebrate the Battle of Lepanto (1571). That church is located at 1512 Webster Avenue, at East 171 Street, a block south of Claremont Parkway, Tremont, Bronx, and was designed by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt[3][4][5] Manhattan's is the most recent, being founded during World War II in 1944 by by Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York and Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces; the present church was built 1944-1946 to the designs by the prominent New York City architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076. 
  2. ^ 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.581.
  3. ^ Shelley, Thomas J. (2007). The Archdiocese of New York: The Bicentennial History. New York City: Editions De Signe / Archdiocese of New York. pp. 535. 
  4. ^ See Thomas J. Shelley, The Archdiocese of New York: the Bicentennial History, (New York: Archdiocese of New York, 2007), p.474; Our Lady of Victory, Webster Avenue, Tremont (Accessed 7 February 2011)
  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.391.
  6. ^ Our History, Church Website (Accessed 24 Jan 2011)