Showing posts with label Gravesend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gravesend. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Most Precious Blood, Bay 47th St, Bath Beach


Most Precious Blood Church is located on Bay 46th Street between Bath Avenue and Harway Avenue.  The mailing address for Most Precious Blood parish is 70 Bay 47th Street, Brooklyn NY 11214, telephone 718-372-8022. In August, 2016, there is a problem with the website.
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Above, looking alongside the church to the rectory and convent on Bay 47th Street.  This is four short blocks west of the Bay 50th Street station of the D train. 
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Bishop Thomas Malloy established the parish in 1927. This attractive church building has a cornerstone dated 1975. In 2009, the Bishop DiMarzio ordered the closing of the parish elementary school.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Sts. Simon and Jude, Gravesend




The church of Sts. Simon and Jude is located on Avenue T between Van Sicklen Street and Lake Street, a block west of McDonald Avenue and the Culver Line F train.  The rectory address is 185 Van Sicklen Street, Brooklyn, New York 11223, telephone 718-375-6642.


The parish smartly provides parish bulletins in an outdoor holder, in addition to posting outdoors the Mass schedule.


The parish's Faith Formation program is located at 294 Avenue T, across from the church, telephone 718-372-0733.  
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Google hosts the parish website, and as of 9.2.2016 the staff page has Latin gibberish (typical of a Google joke when a text is missing) where biographies should be.


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Our Lady of Grace, Ave. W, Gravesend




The parish of Our Lady of Grace is located at 430 Avenue W., Brooklyn NY 11223, telephone 718-627-2020.  The parish website is linked here.  For Mass schedules, please see the website.  In the above photo, the church faces Avenue W, and East 4th Street is to the right.  Ocean Parkway is two short blocks further to the right (east).


Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy is also on Avenue W, immediately west of the church.  The school address is 385 Avenue W, Brooklyn NY 11223, telephone 718-375-2081.