DescriptionLove Alive Fellowship Church - fmr Precious Blood RC Church - Buffalo, New York - 20200525.jpg
English: Love Alive Fellowship Church, 145 Lewis Street at Lyman Street, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. In this Gothic Revival design by architect Albert A. Post, trios of narrow lancet windows are a motif that recurs all over: you'll find groupings of two smaller ones flanking a taller central one above the entrance and along each side elevation interspersed with brick buttresses, while trios of louver windows figure into the upper portion of the tower, below the Celtic cross-topped steeple. Pointed-arched hood molds are ubiquitous, too. The interior was once bedecked with a mural of Christ the King, painted in the 1920s by ecclesiatical artist Jozef Mazur on the semidome of the apse. The building was first home to Precious Blood Catholic Church, located amidst what was then the second-largest stockyards in the United States; the parish was founded in 1898 and initially comprised a community of Irish- and German-Americans, but in short order came to contain a Polish majority. The Felician Franciscan Sisters were in charge of the school, and a convent was built for them on the property in 1964. The parish merged in 1993 with St. Valentine, St. Stephen, Holy Apostles SS. Peter and Paul, and SS. Rita and Patrick and vacated the building at that time. Love Alive Fellowship Church is the African-American Baptist congregation that has owned the building since 2014.
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