The Church of Our Lady of Peace is a historic

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parish church of the

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, located at 239-241 East 62nd Street between

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neighborhood of

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. It was built in 1886-87 at the cost of $200,000, and was designed by Samuel A. Warner in the Victorian Gothic styleOur Lady of Peace
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. It served as the sanctuary for the Church of the Redeemer, a German-speaking congregation, then subsequently became Bethlehem Lutheran Church., p.165 before finally becoming the home of the newly formed Italian ''Madonna della Pace'' parish in 1918. The church, which has been called a "gem", is located in the Treadwell Farm Historic District, designated by the

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in 1967. In November 2014, the Archdiocese announced that the Church of Our Lady of Peace was one of 31 neighborhood parishes which would be merged into other parishes. Our Lady of Peace was to be merged into the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 348 East 55th Street. In February 2017, the Archdiocese with the blessing of Pope Francis, announced an agreement to sell the church to the Egyptian Christian

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community. It then became St. Mary & St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church.St. Mary & St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church
/ref> The first Coptic worship service was on March 5, 2017.

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