Congratulations to author Terri Cook for her extraordinary book, "Sacred Havens of Brooklyn," published by The History Press in 2013. As she includes synagogues, mosques, and Christian churches of many denominations, her 224-page book results from much more investigation, observation, and walking than I have done for this blog.
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At least 72 Catholic parishes are included, often with interesting facts that I did not learn from my other readings. She has divided Brooklyn into three parts, and then into neighborhood chapters, with the result that the Catholic parishes are presented in the context of neighborhood ethnicity and other houses of worship.
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The book offers a wealth of descriptive text. You may discover errors, and the phrasing or vocabulary is sometimes inexact. For example, she uses the word "sanctuary" for the church interior, a Protestant usage, where that word in Catholic usage describes only the limited space near the altar, ambo, and tabernacle, once "inside the communion rail."
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The author has visited the interior of almost all the churches she describes, whereas I have turned away from locked doors. Therefore, her book is more descriptive than this blog.
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Google's Blogger allows revisions, something difficult in a printed book. I am going to have to mine this volume for possible edits of my descriptions of parishes.
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