St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church - Manchester, CT
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N 41° 47.809 W 072° 31.589
18T E 705508 N 4630174
The Gothic Revival style St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church is located at 23 Golway Street in Manchester, CT.
Waymark Code: WM17XCJ
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 04/16/2023
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"The Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) is a Christian church based in the United States and founded by Polish-Americans. The PNCC is not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church due to differing theologically in several respects." Source: Wikipedia: (
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For example, priests of the Polish National Catholic Church are encouraged to marry and all parish property and investments are owned and supervised by the local congregation. The church has around 26,000 members in the United States and Canada and have been an autonomous Catholic denomination since its founding in Scranton, PA in 1897.
St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church was organized in 1928. Land for the present brick church was purchased in 1929. The church was constructed in Gothic Revival style in 1930.
A set of stairs leads up to an entrance which is covered by a gable roof at the base of a tower. Above the entrance is a Palladian window and the sides of the tower have a pair of vertically oriented Gothic style windows. At the top is a white sided belfry with Gothic louvered openings and a pyramidal roof.
The main block of the church has a gable roof and Gothic style windows on front flanking the tower. The sides of the building are five bays deep with rectangular windows at the concrete foundation level and five Gothic windows in the brick section above. The rectory at the northwest corner of the church was built in 1933.