Showing posts with label Guardian Angel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guardian Angel. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Apartments atop Guardian Angel on Ocean Parkway

 https://www.bkmag.com/2025/08/27/brooklyn-diocese-catholic-church-coney-island-church-condo-apartment/

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Our Lady of Solace church on Coney Island is 1.4 miles west of Guardian Angel.

St. Mark's church, Sheepshead Bay, is 2.1 miles east of Guardian Angel.

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A historical link HERE.

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I marvel at the five different language groups for Holy Mass: English, Spanish, Polish, Malayalam Indian, and (under a different bishop or eparch of Stamford) Ukrainian. A recent total of weekend collections was $3,729, with the mid-morning Spanish Mass highest. It appears that autumn 2025 will see some changes in Mass schedules. Imagine the few transitional years of construction as the current church is torn down, replaced by a street-level (stepless) church at the base of an apartment house. I have not yet learned the height of the proposed apartment house. The bkmag article says 13-story, but that needs to be translated to feet or meters.

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An article in Newyorkyimby gives the planned height as 125 feet.  Link HERE.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Guardian Angel, Brighton Beach


Guardian Angel church, dedicated in 1905, stands on the west side of Ocean Parkway at Oceanview Avenue.  It seems that the building behind the church, now used as a parish hall, was the 1880 church.


This view looks west across Ocean Parkway.  The rectory, to the left of the church, is at 2978 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11235.  The telephone number is 718-266-1561.  The updated parish website, linked here, includes the Mass schedule and an interesting history of the parish. 
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The parishioners include faithful of many languages.  Sunday Mass is celebrated in English, Spanish, and Polish, with monthly celebrations in Filipino and thrice-monthly in Malayalam (from Kerala).
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One long block south (to the left in the photo) is the Ocean Parkway station of the Q train from Broadway, Manhattan.  Another long block south is the beach and the Atlantic Ocean.  The B1 crosstown bus from Bay Ridge to Manhattan Beach stops in front of the church.


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