St. Wenceslaus Church, Baltimore MD
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Don.Morfe
N 39° 18.042 W 076° 35.820
18S E 362296 N 4351362
The Church of St. Wenceslaus is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. It was founded in 1872 in a neighborhood of East Baltimore that was then known as Little Bohemia.
Waymark Code: WM14BBW
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2021
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From Wikipedia
"The Church of St. Wenceslaus (Czech: Kostel sv. Václava) is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore located in the Middle East neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.
St. Wenceslaus was founded in 1872 in a neighborhood of East Baltimore that was then known as Little Bohemia. The parish was created primarily to serve the Bohemian (Czech) community in Baltimore. As suggested by parish records (which begin around May 1872), a significant number of early attendees came from South Bohemia around Milevsko, as well as the Plzen Region south of Nepomuk (especially Pacejov and Myslív). Also attending included Slovaks, especially from the parish of Studienka (also known as Szentistván), the parish of Švábovce (including Hôrka and Ondrej (also known as Szent-András)), and the parish of Lakšárska Nová Ves (including Mikulášov, also known as Niklhof). Church services were originally held in both the English and Czech languages. The present church was built in 1914, and at that time the church had 7,000 Bohemian Catholic members. By 1920 the church was the fourth largest in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
In recent years, the ethnic character of St. Wenceslaus parish has undergone a gradual change from a majority Czech parish to one that is multicultural and multiracial, first as many Poles and Lithuanians moved into the neighborhood, and then as the neighborhood shifted to having an African American majority.
St. Wenceslaus was founded and staffed by priests and lay brothers of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, until 1999. Since then, it has been administered by friars of the Franciscan Third Order Regular
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