Old St. Mary's Church

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name = Old St. Mary's Church, School and Rectory


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location = Cincinnati, Ohio
architect = Franz Ignatz Erd cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-06-30|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
architecture = Greek Revival and Late Victorian
added = March 13, 1976
governing_body = Private
lat_degrees = 39 | lat_minutes = 6 | lat_seconds = 35.48 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 84 | long_minutes = 30 | long_seconds = 43.99 | long_direction = W
refnum = 76001439

Old St. Mary's Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati in the United States. It is located at 123 E. Thirteenth Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. This Roman Catholic parish was organized in 1840 for German speaking members. It is the second-oldest German-Catholic parish in the city and the oldest standing church in Cincinnati. The original church was dedicated on July 3, 1842. In May through August 1849, 796 parishioners of St. Mary's died in the cholera epidemic. There were 345 funerals in July alone. The "Old" was added in 1904 when St. Mary's in Hyde Park (Cincinnati) was founded.cite web|url=http://www2.eos.net/dajend/parish1.html|work=Profiles of Roman Catholic Parishes in Cincinnati and Hamilton County|title=All Saints through Saint Ann] The church is 142 feet long , 66 feet wide and with a steeple 170 feet tall.

The parish, which draws parishioners from some 50 different zip codes, continues to preserve the rich liturgical, musical and cultural heritage of the Roman Catholic tradition. The Church offers Masses in Latin, German and English every Sunday. The Latin Mass features a Gregorian chant choir.

The parish complex includes a building that once served the parish as a girls’ grammar school. At present St. John Social Services leases the building from the parish to house several of their outreach programs for the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

The parent parish was Holy Trinity Church (Heilige Dreieinigkeit) which was located at West Fifth Street and Barr Street/Mound Street, in Cincinnati's Old West End. Holy Trinity was organized in 1834 and was the First German parish and second Roman Catholic parish in Cincinnati. The Holy Trinity Parish was closed in 1958.

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References

Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, page 213

External links

* [http://www.oldstmarys.org/introduction/index.html Old St. Mary's Church Official Website]
* [http://rackphoto.com/prayer/osmpage.html Interior of Old St. Mary's]
* [http://www.aquinas-multimedia.com/catherine/oldstmarys.html Resurrected Urban Parish]
* [http://www.oldstmarys.org/cornerstone/Advent1998/history.html The Cornerstone]
* [http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH0117.dir/ato000540ccchc.jpgOld St. Mary's Church, circa 1896]
* [http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH01b1.dir/ato000532ccchc.jpgLouis Aloysius Tieman, Assistant Rector, St. Mary's Church, circa 1896]