No. 56 February 2006
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey
About this site
We've created a database
and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th
century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome
and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.
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to readers' queries
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Glossary
List of churches, by county
Photographic notes
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Vintage photographs
Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches.
If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and our thanks!St. Patrick's ProCathedral
Newark, Essex County
This is the oldest Catholic church in the state, begun in 1846 and completed three years later. It was supposedly designed by the priest at Saint John's, Father Moran, but there is some evidence that Patrick Keeley the very prominent architect employed by dozens of catholic parishes in the region, had a great deal to do with the design. The French Gothic style of the church was generally preferred over the English Gothic of the Episcopal Church.
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