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Map of Interior
Church
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The new Mary Garden on Fifth Avenue
"The New Saint Peter's"
In late 1997 the parish decided to mark the
fiftieth anniversary of its founding in 1948 by initiating a renovation of
the interior of the church and the construction of an addition.
The original parish complex, completed in 1952, made “temporary” use of
the school auditorium as a church. A proper church was to be built later.
The new renovation was designed to finally complete the dreams of the
founders of the parish, though not in the way they anticipated. Fifty
years of liturgical life had consecrated the “temporary” church in the
hearts of parishioners and successive renovations had added stained glass
windows and other church features to the original space. With the advice
of a Restoration Committee set up to advise the pastor, it was decided to
restore and enhance the interior (it had last been painted and renovated
twenty years earlier), and to build an addition. A new entrance that would
give our building the church appearance it had always lacked was a key
element of the design. The new construction would also allow us to add
several features to support the expanding ministries of the parish.
Anthony Genovese, AIA, of Ridgewood, a well-known and long experienced
liturgical architect, was selected to design the renovation and addition.
In 1965 Genovese had been selected to design the papal altar in Yankee
Stadium for the visit of Pope Paul VI, the first visit of a pope to this
country. Exactly 30 years later, Genovese was again chosen to design the
altar at Giant Stadium for the visit of Pope John Paul II.
A parish capital campaign, entitled “Forward In Faith,” in the fall of
1998 went well over goal. Construction began with groundbreaking in
December, 1999. The worship space was completed in time for the Paschal
Triduum of 2000, and the entire project was blessed by Archbishop
McCarrick in November, 2000, during the Holy Year of the Great Jubilee.
With this project we celebrate three Jubilees: the Golden Jubilee of the
founding of this parish, the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 and the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the completion of the church, school and other
parish buildings in 1952.
You are now looking at the results: what we like to call the “New Saint
Peter’s,” building new upon the old, building the new for a new future.
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