Church of the Transfiguration
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 962-5157
- Cross Street:
- Between Pell Street and Mosco Street
- Directions:
- 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z at Brooklyn Bridge
- Hours:
- Parish office: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Editorial Review for Church of the Transfiguration – by Elaine Heinzman
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 possesses simple stained-glass accents, its pitched windows are in the more elaborate Gothic Parish style of mid-1850s England. The church offers everything from a competitive parochial curriculum and kindergarten program to Bible study and English as a second language course work. It has the country's largest Chinese-American congregation.
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