San Isidoro y San Leandro Church

345 East 4th Street | East Village | built 1920

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1892
November 1
A Hungarian Catholic congregation converts a tenement into a church
The Catholic Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary bought a tenement at 345 East 4th Street in 1891 for $7,500 and hired architect Edward Wenz to rebuild it into a church for about $16,200. Wenz kept the tenement's stone stoop and English basement but added Victorian Gothic window arches and a small cupola serving as a steeple. Father Francis Januschek, sent from Neutra, Hungary, consecrated the building on November 1, 1892, for a parish of about 500 Hungarian and Slovak immigrants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1917
The Hungarian Catholic parish moves uptown after 25 years
As its Hungarian and Slovak immigrant families moved away from the Lower East Side, the Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary relocated to the Upper East Side in 1917, leaving the small East 4th Street building behind after 25 years of use.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1930
The church passes from Russian Orthodox hands to a Hispanic Mozarabic-rite parish
The Russian Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity occupied the building from before 1930, and in 1975 it was taken over by the San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite, the congregation that used the building for decades afterward.
Source: Wikipedia

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