Church of San Salvatore

359 Broome Street | also 127 Elizabeth Street | Little Italy | built 1900

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.

1897
May 10
The San Salvatore mission buys the Broome Street site of Brooke's Assembly Rooms
The Episcopal Italian congregation of San Salvatore faced losing its Mulberry Street church to the widening of Elm Street. On May 10, 1897, it bought 359 Broome Street, where Brooke's Assembly Rooms stood, a gathering place of fashionable society before the area became Italian. By May 1901 the rooms had been razed and a Gothic-style church with a gymnasium was planned.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1903
January
Bishop Potter dedicates San Salvatore, an Italian-language Episcopal church
Bishop Potter dedicated the new church in January 1903. It seated eight hundred, held three Sunday services entirely in Italian, and about two hundred children attended its Sunday school. The attached parish house hosted the San Salvatore Mutual Aid Society, a boys' choir, sewing and cooking classes and boys' clubs for the neighborhood's mostly poor Italian immigrants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1940
Maundy Thursday
Little Italy families keep old-country Maundy Thursday rites at San Salvatore
In 1940 the New York Times described the Maundy Thursday observances at San Salvatore. Neighborhood families entered silently and left offerings of small wheat and lentil plants under a twenty-foot cross before kneeling in prayer. As Chinatown spread into the area, the church later became home to Holy Trinity Ukrainian Church.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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