OUR SAVIOUR
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- Age: 176 years
- ID: 16030275/140
59 Park Ave. (at 38th St.) New York, NY 10016
The Parish of Our Saviour was founded in 1955 and the church was dedicated in 1959. The church was designed by Paul C. Reilly, who was a member of the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity of the Archdiocese of New York and was the architect who completed the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey. On August 1, 2015, the Parish of Our Saviour merged with the Parish of Our Lady of the Scapular-Saint Stephen. Saint Stephen's Parish was founded in 1848 and the church building, designed by James Renwick, Jr., is located on East Twenty-ninth Street, near Lexington Avenue. The Parish of Our Lady of the Scapular was founded in 1889 and was located at 341 East 28th Street. The parish merged with Saint Stephen's in the 1980s.