Our Lady of Good Voyage Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 136-144 Prospect Street and 2-4 Taylor Street in

Gloucester, Massachusetts Gloucester () is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. An important center of the fishing industry and a ...

. The first church on the site was built in 1892 to serve a large

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immigrant population that came to Gloucester to work in the fishery. That church burned in 1914, and this Spanish Revival building, designed to resemble the Santa Maria Madalena church in the Azorean community of

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on the island of Pico. The church also includes one of the oldest sets of full

carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniou ...

bells in the United States. The church was listed on the

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in 1990.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Churches in Essex County, Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Gloucester, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-church-stub

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