Queens · NYC landmark
Former St. Monica’s Church
94-20 160th Street · Queens, New York City
A surviving church front records the growth of Jamaica’s early Irish Catholic community.
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NYFE Summary
Irish laborers and farm workers helped form this parish. Before it had its own church, a visiting priest held Mass in a blacksmith’s shop. The city later acquired the church property for the York College urban renewal project.
The historic front rises around a narrow brick tower with round-arched openings. Small repeated arches run below the roof edges, and a stone plaque identifies the former church. The preserved front now adjoins a newer building.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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Check the operator’s current opening, admission and access information before travelling. Historic status does not guarantee public access to every interior.
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