Church of Our Lady Help of Christians

7396 Amboy Road | also 7394 Amboy Road | Tottenville | built 1990

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

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1898
Our Lady Help of Christians becomes its own parish and builds its first church
The Tottenville congregation began in 1890, run as a mission by St. Joseph's Church in Rossville. The Archdiocese of New York made it a parish in its own right in 1898, and its first church building went up later that same year. That earlier church stood until a fire in 1985.
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1927
Dorothy Day is baptized a Catholic at Our Lady Help of Christians
The social activist Dorothy Day joined the Catholic Church through a conditional baptism at this Tottenville parish in 1927. The baptism took place in the parish's earlier church, which burned in 1985. Day is now a candidate for sainthood.
“Dorothy Day, now a candidate for sainthood, converted to Catholicism with her conditional baptism at Our Lady Help of Christians in 1927…”
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1990
The parish rebuilds its church five years after a fire destroys the first one
The church built for the parish in 1898 was lost to fire in 1985. Our Lady Help of Christians replaced it with the present church, completed in 1990, which still serves the Tottenville parish under the Archdiocese of New York.
“Its first church building was constructed later that year. It burned down in 1985 and was rebuilt in 1990.”
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