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(212) 962-5157
25 Mott St
(Between Pell Street and Mosco Street)
New York,
NY
10013
40.7146
-73.9988
Neighborhoods: Chinatown, Downtown
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Background – In 1801, the English-speaking descendants of German Lutheran emigres spent $15,000 to build a substantial stone church, before it passed into the hands of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The church was purchased by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1853; Father Felix Varela, a Cuban-born pioneer of Catholic journalism, had founded the parish in 1827. Mother Frances Cabrini, named "Saint of All Immigrants" in the 1950s by Pope Pius XII, established a school at the Transfiguration Parish in 1899. – – Features – Though this Georgian-style building…
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Masses given in Cantonese, English and Mandarin
