The Church of St. John Nepomucene is a Roman Catholic parish located on East 66th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.David W. Dunlap, From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 215. The founders of the church were recent immigrants from Slovakia, who began meeting in St. Brigid's Parish at 8th Street and Avenue B in about 1891 and established the Society of St. Matthew to organize their own parish.Saint John Nepomucene, About->History, retrieved July 22, 2020
The parish was established in 1895 from within St. Elizabeth of Hungary parish, which was centered on its church on 83rd Street.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.340. The church, school and rectory were built for $300,000."Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works May 6, 1946411 E. 66th St. & First Avenue (1925)pageNum_Recordset1=http://www.rafaelguastavino.com/index2.php?pageNum_Recordset1=52&totalRows_Recordset1=25152&totalRows_Recordset1=251 Rafael Guastavino's Architecture in New York #211 (ACCESSED Dec 21, 2010)
See also St. John Nepomucene
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