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Old St. Mary's Church – formerly Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, and also known as "The Old Church: – at 230 East University Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, is a historic church at the built in 1903 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Father Severin Westhoff.
The current church was elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1985. The oldest Catholic parish church in the greater Phoenix area, St. Mary's was the only parish in Phoenix until 1924 and is home to Arizona's largest stained glass windows collection and a 26-rank pipe organ built by the Schantz Organ Company.
St. Mary's church was founded by Episcopalians seeking to establish an Anglo-Catholic community in the Diocese of Arizona. The first Mass was celebrated on the Feast of Christ the King, October 28, 1956, in a Phoenix storefront. Several supply priests served the growing mission parish until the first vicar, the Reverend Rodney Cobb, arrived in ...
Saint Mary's Catholic Church is between Third and Spring Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The church was built in 1906–07 with the Mission/Spanish Revival style. The native stone came from Metcalfe Quarry. The Catholic Church had two fundraising events to help raise money for St. Mary's and they were done in 1903 and 06. The church served Kingman ...
English: The oldest Catholic church in the Valley, this 1902 building is now known as the Newman Center and serves the Tempe and ASU communities. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The first Catholic church in Phoenix, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was dedicated in 1881. It would remain the only parish in the city until 1924. [9] Also in 1881, the first Catholic church was constructed in Tempe - it would be replaced in 1903 by Old St. Mary's Church. [10]
The current church was elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1985. The oldest Roman Catholic parish church in the greater Phoenix area, St. Mary's was the only parish in Phoenix until 1924 and is home to Arizona's largest stained glass windows collection and a 26 rank pipe organ built by the Schantz Organ Company.
Now part of the Catholic Community [1] St. Luke Church, 1211 E. 15th St, Douglas Now part of the Catholic Community [2] St Bernard Church, 2308 N. Mc Kinley St, Pirtleville: Now part of the Catholic Community [3] Our Lady of Lourdes 386 E. 5th St, Benson Founded in 1894, current church dedicated in 1949 [4] Our Lady of the Mountains