Changes
This is Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. This Gothic Revival church was built in 1867 when it was called St Patrick's Church and it served a mainly Irish congregation. In 1908 a new St Patrick's Church was built around the corner and this one was renamed Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the parish was mostly Italian. Through the years the congregation changed to Portuguese, then Korean and since 1970 it has been a Chinese church with many services for the Chinese community in the area, such as day care etc. The building is the 5th oldest Catholic church in the city.
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25 comments:
Gothic Revival may be tricky, but they got this church quite well... You too!
Gothic Revival may be tricky, but they got this church quite well... You too!
Nice shot of the steeple. This is just another confirmation that the City Of Toronto is made up of many different cultures.
neat how it has seen so many cultures worship!
Super shot Pat, tricky to get it all in. What a long and varied history this old church has.
Very nice Pat!
Beautiful old building with quite a changing history.
Love the building and he fact that it has become home for different ethnic groups. There's a lot to like in Toronto.`
Classical looking Catholic church serving different waves of immigrants. Didn't realize there were large numbers of Chinese Catholics.
Es muy bella, me gustaría verla en persona.
Un abrazo y gracias por tanto arte.
Go gothic! :-)
Excellent perspective for this shot!
In a changing neighborhood I'd say.Ton The Backroads Traveller
This church has certainly had an interesting history!
You captured the full view of the church nicely!
what a beauty. i love it. awesome spire. enjoy all the arches. way cool. ( :
Beautiful church.
a living history of Toronto. Very cool
ALOHA from Honolulu,
ComfortSpiral
=^..^=
Nice warm yellow brick.
Diana
The people may have changed, but sounds like there are still good things going on here!
Nice church Pat, you will hav eto show inside now
Fascinating that the congregation has changed so many times, reflecting the changing neighbourhoods in Toronto.
Wow, that spells out history as so many changes happened in one building. I like how it looks, very beautiful.
That is an interesting history. In Hartford I see some churches that have had one or two transformations as the neighborhoods changed, but this has had more and faster.
The architecture is wonderful!
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