St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church (Chicago, Illinois)
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West Alexander Street, 216
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Services are conducted in four languages.
the church building was originally consecrated as Santa Maria Incoronata Church and had a largely Italian-American congregation, many of whose ancestors came from Ricigliano near Salerno. In the 1950s the church began to attract more and more Chinese Catholic worshipers while the Italian congregation declined in numbers. In 1963 the building was passed on to St. Therese Chinese Mission, founded in 1940 and at first based in a rented store on Wentworth Avenue.
An interesting non-Chinese feature is the large statue of Christ on the Cross donated to Santa Maria Incoronata by Teresina (or Therese) Capone, the mother of Al Capone.
www.ccamuseum.org/index.php/en/research/places-map/177-...
chicago-outdoor-sculptures.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-ther...
the church building was originally consecrated as Santa Maria Incoronata Church and had a largely Italian-American congregation, many of whose ancestors came from Ricigliano near Salerno. In the 1950s the church began to attract more and more Chinese Catholic worshipers while the Italian congregation declined in numbers. In 1963 the building was passed on to St. Therese Chinese Mission, founded in 1940 and at first based in a rented store on Wentworth Avenue.
An interesting non-Chinese feature is the large statue of Christ on the Cross donated to Santa Maria Incoronata by Teresina (or Therese) Capone, the mother of Al Capone.
www.ccamuseum.org/index.php/en/research/places-map/177-...
chicago-outdoor-sculptures.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-ther...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°51'5"N 87°37'57"W
- All Saints Polish National Church and Cemetery 24 km
- St. Mary Parish and School 44 km
- Christ Community Church 69 km
- Saint Benedict's Abbey 81 km
- St. John the Baptist Catholic Church 112 km
- Saint Pius X Catholic Church 123 km
- Thomas More High School 127 km
- St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church 200 km
- St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and School 278 km
- St. Martha Church / Elementary School 284 km
- Chinatown 0.3 km
- The Hub 0.8 km
- Near South Side 1.2 km
- Armour Square 1.3 km
- Illinois Institute of Technology 2 km
- Pilsen 2 km
- Bridgeport 2.2 km
- Douglas 2.3 km
- Lower West Side 2.4 km
- Bronzeville 3.2 km