Church of St. Simon Stock – St. Joseph

2191 Valentine Avenue | Mount Hope | built 1925

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1919
Irish Carmelites found the parish of St. Simon Stock on Valentine Avenue
The parish was started in 1919 by the Irish Carmelites of Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel, based in lower Manhattan, and Carmelite Fathers have staffed it continuously since. Sermons here were sometimes preached in Irish Gaelic.
“On occasion, sermons were given in Irish Gaelic.”
Source: Wikipedia
1920
March 28
St. Simon Stock's first Mass is said in a frame house on "Carmel Hill"
On Palm Sunday 1920 the new parish celebrated its first Mass in a two-story frame house at what it called Carmel Hill, at 182nd Street and Valentine Avenue. Work on a permanent church started in 1921 but was halted partway because the parish first had to build a school.
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2015
St. Joseph's congregation has merged into St. Simon Stock after its Bathgate Avenue church closes
St. Joseph's, founded in 1873 for the German Catholics of Tremont, had a church at 1949 Bathgate Avenue that had fallen out of repair. By 2015 that church was closed and its congregation had joined St. Simon Stock, about three-quarters of a mile away. The combined parish carries both saints' names.
Source: Wikipedia

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