Brooklyn · Historic destination
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral
113 Remsen Street · Brooklyn, New York City
Discover an Upjohn-designed Brooklyn Heights church adapted by a Lebanese congregation, with unusual reused architectural details.
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NYFE Summary
The building began as the Church of the Pilgrims and was sold to a Lebanese Catholic congregation in 1944. Its new owners reused material from several demolished or dismantled buildings. The entrance doors incorporate bronze medallions from the ocean liner Normandie.
Other reused materials came from Charles Schwab’s mansion and the French and Lebanese pavilions at the 1939 World’s Fair. The earlier congregation’s Tiffany windows moved to Plymouth Church; gemmaux glass windows replaced them here. The doorway metalwork can be examined from outside. This remains a working cathedral, so an interior visit requires checking with the cathedral.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
Plan a visit
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