Christ Church, in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...

, is a parish in the

Episcopal Diocese of Rochester The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over eight counties in west central New York. It is bounded on the north by Lake Ontario, on the east by the Episcopal Di ...

. It is located at 141 East Avenue. The church was listed on the

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in 2008. The church is a large

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building made of "rock-faced red

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sandstone". It sports

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and

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. an
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* Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1894 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Rochester, New York Episcopal church buildings in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Rochester, New York {{NewYork-church-stub