Saint

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's of Rochester

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located in

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. Standing at , it is the 10th tallest building in Rochester. It is a currently active parish church within the

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, Monroe Central Deanery, and is one of three churches that make up the Saint

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Parish, alongside Church of the Annunciation, and Our Lady of the Americas Church. Masses at St. Michael’s Church are currently only celebrated in

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History

It is a

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-style stone church in the form of a Latin cross, long and feet wide. It was designed by German-born architect, Adolphus Druiding. Plans and designs for the church began in 1887, and in 1890 it was finished and dedicated. The Lockport

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

and

Medina Medina, officially al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (, ), also known as Taybah () and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (), is the capital of Medina Province (Saudi Arabia), Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ...

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were hauled by barge down the

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. The building was designed to seat 1,100

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s.Saint Michael's of Rochester Histor

saintmichaelsofrochester.org The pipe organ, organ was built by J. W. Steere & Son Organ Company of Springfield, Mass and has 2,169 pipes. The church bells were manufactured by the Meneely and Kimberly foundry, and by the

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. The first pastor of the church was Fridolin Pascalar, who served from 1874 until 1896.

Gallery

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References

http://sfxcrochester.org

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