English: The St. Ambrose worship site of Our Lady of Charity RC Church, 65 Ridgewood Road, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. St. Ambrose was one of the last new Catholic parishes in Buffalo to be established (excepting those created during the late-2000s "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program from mergers of other parishes), so the bold Modernist architecture of the church building, the work of the local firm of Foit & Baschnagel, is perhaps unsurprising; the brick façade facing Ridgewood Road resembles nothing so much as one of Richard Neutra's butterfly roofs turned on its side. The most notable architectural element of St. Ambrose, however, is the stained glass, executed in 1992 by local artist Russell Vacanti, with imagery inspired by the reforms of Vatican II and dealing with themes unusual in stained glass, such as socioeconomic justice, gun violence, drug abuse, and interfaith relations. Established in 1930, the St. Ambrose parish was cleaved off the territory of Holy Family; the modest frame church constructed on the site in 1930 was not replaced with a permanent structure until 1950, due to the economic hardship of the Great Depression and supplies rationing during World War II. In 2010, as part of the Buffalo Diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program, St. Ambrose and Holy Family merged parishes once again, along with St. Agatha, to form the new Our Lady of Charity parish; the former two buildings are still used as worship sites (two Masses each on Sunday, with St. Ambrose hosting three of five midweek Masses as well as Vigil on Saturday evening), while the St. Agatha complex was used initially by the parish for office space and also housed a Head Start education center but was sold to a private developer in 2018.