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Sacred Heart Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)

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Sacred Heart Church


40°42′24″N 74°05′00″W / 40.7066°N 74.0832°W / 40.7066; -74.0832
Address	Jersey City, New Jersey
Country	United States
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Status	Church
Founded	1898 (1898)
Dedicated	1898 (1898)
Architecture
Architect(s)	Ralph Adams Cram
Architectural type	Gothic Revival
Years built	1922 (1922)
Specifications
Number of spires	2
Administration
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Newark

Sacred Heart Church is a historic church and former Roman Catholic parish church on MLK Drive at Bayview Avenue in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. It is within the Archdiocese of Newark.

History and description[edit]

Built between 1922 and 1924, it was designed by Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram with a mixture of Spanish Gothic and Moorish architecture. Its stained glass windows were designed by the then 18-year-old Harry Wright Goodhue.^[1]^[2]

The complex is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places^[3] but is considered threatened.^[4]

Sacred Heart Church closed in 2005 when the number of parishioners dropped to a few hundred from the 4,000 it had at its peak. The Archdiocese of Newark has no plans to reopen the church.^[5]^[6] The affiliated Sacred Heart School remains open.^[7]^[8]

The priory of the church become home of the Jersey City Employment & Training Program (JCETP) re-entry program, headed by Jim McGreevey, in 2015.^[9]

During the 2019 Jersey City shooting the school was on lock-down and used as defensive position during the incident.^[10]^[11] That school was taken over by law-enforcement agencies and used during the incident.^[12]

References[edit]

^ "Dreaming in Technicolor". Architectural Media. Retrieved 2014-08-21.

^ Gomez, John (2009), Legendary Locals, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9781467100922

^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Hudson County". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-06-22.

^ "Sacred Heart Church". Preservation New Jersey. Archived from the original on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2014-09-20.

^ Fernandes, Nicolas (June 27, 2014). "Preservationist thinks reopening Jersey City church will improve MLK Drive area". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2014-08-20.

^ Gomez, John (May 2008). Sacred Heart Church in Jersey City, New Jersey - A History and Analysis of Ralph Adams Cram's Seminal Spanish Gothic Masterwork (PDF) (MSc thesis). Columbia University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-10. Retrieved 2014-08-20.

^ Thorbourne, Ken (June 26, 2014). "Amid economic challenges, Jersey City's Sacred Heart School continues mission". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2014-08-21.

^ "Sacred Heart School". Sacred Heart School. Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-21.

^ McDonald, Terrence T. (22 July 2015). "Local politicians hail new prisoner re-entry center". The Jersey Journal.

^ Heyboer, Kelly (December 10, 2019). "Thousands of kids on lockdown in schools as gunman opens fire in Jersey City". NJ Advance Media. Retrieved December 11, 2019.

^ Heyboer, Kelly (December 10, 2019). "Jersey City schools lift lockdown, let thousands of kids go home after fatal shooting". NJ Advance Media. Retrieved December 11, 2019.

^ "Police body cam videos show fierce gun battle after fatal shooting at Jersey City kosher market". Associated Press. February 21, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020 – via NJ.com.

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HPN Network Harry Wright Goodhue

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See also: Wall Street West and Sixth borough

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark

v t e Ordinaries of the Archdiocese of Newark
Bishops	James Roosevelt Bayley Michael Corrigan Winand Wigger John O'Connor
Archbishops	Thomas J. Walsh Thomas Aloysius Boland Peter Leo Gerety Theodore McCarrick John J. Myers Joseph W. Tobin
Coadjutor Archbishop	Bernard Hebda
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v t e Churches in the Archdiocese of Newark
List	List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Parishes	St. Henry's Church, Bayonne Madonna Church, Fort Lee Church of Our Lady of Grace, Hoboken Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Bayonne St. Anthony of Padua Church, Jersey City St. Antoninus Church, Newark St. Casimir's Church, Newark St. Columba's Church, Newark St. John's Church, Newark St. Joseph's Church, Newark Pro-Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Newark St. Rocco's Church, Newark St. John's Church, Orange St. Mary's Church, Plainfield Former parishes Sacred Heart Church, Jersey City
Abbey	St. Mary's Abbey Church

v t e Education in the Archdiocese of Newark
Higher education	Seton Hall University Caldwell University Felician College Saint Peter's University
Seminary	Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
High schools	Bergen County Academy of the Holy Angels, Demarest Bergen Catholic High School, Oradell Don Bosco Preparatory High School, Ramsey Immaculate Conception High School, Lodi Immaculate Heart Academy, Washington Township Paramus Catholic High School, Paramus St. Joseph Regional High School, Montvale St. Mary High School, Rutherford Essex County Christ the King Preparatory School, Newark Immaculate Conception High School, Montclair Lacordaire Academy, Upper Montclair Mount Saint Dominic Academy, Caldwell St. Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark St. Vincent Academy, Newark Seton Hall Preparatory School, West Orange Hudson County Hudson Catholic Regional High School, Jersey City St. Dominic Academy, Jersey City St. Peter's Preparatory School, Jersey City Kenmare High School, Jersey City Union County Mother Seton Regional High School, Clark Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child, Summit Oratory Preparatory School, Summit Roselle Catholic High School, Roselle St. Mary of the Assumption High School, Elizabeth Union Catholic Regional High School, Scotch Plains
Former	Benedictine Academy, Elizabeth Holy Family Academy, Bayonne Marist High School, Bayonne Queen of Peace High School, North Arlington St. Anthony High School, Jersey City St. Cecilia High School, Englewood
Grade schools	St. Anne School, Fair Lawn All Saints Catholic Academy, Bayonne