The Church of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal was a

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, a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The church was located at 114th Street and 7th Avenue in

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. The parish was established in 1927 to serve the Spanish-speaking community of upper Manhattan and

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. It was the second parish established in the Archdiocese to serve this growing population, the first being the

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. It was staffed by

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from

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. The parish was closed in the 1980s.

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