Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 105 Pitt Street between Rivington and Stanton Streets, Manhattan, New York City. The area was formerly known as Kleindeutschland .HistoryThe Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was established in 1867 as Our Lady of the Seven Dolors Church and staffed by the Capuchin Friars. It served as the national parish for the large number of German Catholics who immigrated to New York in the late nineteenth century. Later it became a parish for Italian and then Hispanic immigrants.BuildingOur Lady of Sorrows was built 1867-1868 in the Victorian, Byzantine Revival, and Romanesque Revival style by Henry Engelbert. Archbishop John McCloskey dedicated the church on September 6, 1868.SchoolThe parish school was among 27 closed by the Archdiocese under the Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan in January 2011.