St. Mary Magdalen Church (New York City)

Former church in Manhattan, New York

The Church of St. Mary Magdalen is a former Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, in Manhattan, New York City.

The church was originally established in 1873 to serve a German Catholic population.^[1] It was a mid-block gable-fronted brick single-cell building with Romanesque details located at 529 E 17th Street. In 1877^[2] the parish added a rectory at 527 E 17th Street^[3] and a school at 523 E 17th Street.^[4] The next year, the Sisters of St. Dominic began operating the school. Their convent was located north of the school at 526 E 18th street.^[4] All buildings were demolished in the early 1940s to make way for Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village.

In 1945 ^{[citation needed]}, the parish moved to its final location at Avenue D between 12th Street & 13th Street. The parish is now closed.

References

1. Dunlap, David W. (2012-08-14). From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231500722.
2. The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. | ... Catholic editing Company. 1914.
3. The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
4. "(cartographic) Plate 45, (1916)". |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=May 15, 2018 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation}}

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