Transfiguration Catholic Church
Historic site · Maspeth, New York
A Roman Catholic church of the Diocese of Brooklyn, established as a Lithuanian parish and now part of the merged Parish of Saint Stanislaus Kostka - Transfiguration. The present building was designed by the Lithuanian architect Jonas Mulokas, begun in 1956 and consecrated in 1962. Above the doors is the Lithuanian phrase Mano Namai Maldos Namai ("My house is a house of prayer"), a replica of a Lithuanian roadside shrine stands on the front lawn, the steeple echoes that shrine, and the interior decoration draws on Lithuanian folk art.
History
The parish was organized in 1908 to serve Lithuanian immigrants who had settled in Maspeth and the Blissville section of Long Island City. Its first church building, erected in 1909 on Hull Avenue, was destroyed by fire in 1925. The parish then moved to the former site of St. Stanislaus Kostka's old church on Clinton Avenue, with its rear facade abutting Perry Avenue, and a church was built there in 1935; that structure became the parish hall when the present building was completed. Mulokas's design won awards from the American Society of Registered Architects and the Queens Chamber of Commerce and was featured on the front page of the New York Times on December 2, 1962.
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64-14 Clinton Avenue, Maspeth, NY 11378
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