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Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Bernard's Church (New York City)

Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard's Church
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Facade elevation and interior view from nave to altar sanctuary (Photographed February 2011)
General information
Architectural style English and French Gothic Revival
Ruskinian Gothic
Town or city Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Country United States of America
Construction started May 1873
Completed 1875
Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Design and construction
Architect Patrick Charles Keely (1816—1896)
Website
Our Lady of Guadalupe @ St. Bernard's, Manhattan

Coordinates: 40°44′24.7″N 74°0′15″W / 40.740194°N 74.00417°W / 40.740194; -74.00417

The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Bernard is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 328-332 West 14th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 2003 as a result of a parish merger of the Manhattan parishes of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Bernard's Church.

The parish of St. Bernard was established in 1868 for a congregation of mostly Irish immigrants and their descendants, which influenced the decision to hire the Irish-born prolific ecclesiastical architect of Roman Catholic churches and cathedrals, Patrick Keely. It was once considered one of the most important Catholic parishes in the city. The parish closed in 2003 after it merged with Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, which was located a block east on the same street, to create the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard's Church.

In the autumn of 1868 Mary Catherine Dannat Starr started a sewing school for girls at St. Bernard's to teach them skills in order to better their condition. She later went on to found the Sisters of the Divine Compassion.


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