Holy Mother of the Rosary Polish National Catholic Cathedral, Lancaster, New York, August 2021 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Holy Mother of the Rosary Polish National Catholic Cathedral, Lancaster, New York, August 2021 / Western New York Architecture Deep Cuts
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| 説明 | Holy Mother of the Rosary Polish National Catholic Cathedral, 6298 Broadway, Lancaster, New York, August 2021. This sprawling brick edifice was completed in 1996 and sports a timely Postmodern aesthetic that draws as much from the Gothic as it does the usual Classical influences: married to the sleek angularity and minimalist ornamentation of 20th-century Modernism is a recurring motif of triangular forms expressed in the guise of multitudinous clerestory windows, secondary gables, and skylights, which furnishes the requisite vertical emphasis. It's a work of Michigan-based architect Henry Kowalewski, working in concert with local associates Kideney Architects. The history of Holy Mother of the Rosary traces back to the East Side of the nearby city of Buffalo, and specifically to the Roman Catholic church of Saint Adalbert, a troubled congregation constantly plagued by infighting, principally over the question of ownership and control over the parish building and grounds. The disagreements led to a revolving door of unpopular priests who tried and failed to maintain order among their flock, and finally, in 1895, to the anti-diocesan faction splitting not only from the church but from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo itself, buying a plot of land a block away from St. Adalbert's, and founding Buffalo's first "independent Catholic" church. Under the able leadership of founding pastor Stefan Kaminski, Holy Mother of the Rosary at first managed to defend itself against the insults, jeering and occasional violence that the flock endured from the rest of the community, and to dedicate their original home church on Sobieski Street in the heart of Buffalo's Polish district in 1906. However, after his death, his much less astute successor steered the church into financial ruin, culminating in the Buffalo Diocese's purchase of their church in a foreclosure auction. It was at this time that the now-homeless Holy Mother of the Rosary congregation affiliated itself with the Scranton, Pennsylvania-based Polish National Catholic Church, which had split from Rome acrimoniously some years earlier over a host of complaints, foremost among which was a shortage of Polish-speaking priests to lead immigrant congregations. That had never been a problem in Buffalo's Polonia; however, Rev. Franciszek Hodur, the Polish National Church's founder and "Prime Bishop", had been undertaking an aggressive campaign of expansion based largely on swallowing up such small independent Catholic congregations, and he saw an opportunity to use Holy Mother of the Rosary's plight as a proxy to strike back at Rome. With Bishop Hodur's financial backing, the congregation sued the Diocese and, in 1915, won their church back plus $24,000 in back rent for the 22 months the Roman Catholics occupied the building. Thenceforward, Holy Mother of the Rosary settled into a quiet and stable coexistence with the other Polish churches of the East Side - and, similar to its neighbors, as the 20th century wore on, the decline of and demographic changes in old Polonia made it more and more difficult for the church to continue on in its original location. The church purchased the site of its present-day suburban campus in 1971 but stayed put for another couple decades, finally approving in 1992 the move it had been contemplating. Its former home is now a mosque and Islamic school. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-08-14 18:10:34 |
| 撮影者 | Western New York Architecture Deep Cuts |
| 撮影地 | Alden, New York, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | iPhone 11 , Apple |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/1961) |
| 開放F値 | f/1.8 |
| 焦点距離 | 42 deg 53' 29.52" N |