More about our Church
The John H. McMahon Company, whose works in New York include St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in
the Bronx, did the contracting and building of Incarnation. While the James H. Keane Company
designed and installed the altars. Mollar Organ Works of Hagerstown, MD supplied the organ.
The stained glass windows were executed by Zettler Studios of Newark. An interesting note concerning
these windows is found in a letter of Mr. Zettler to one of the priests of the parish, written some time
after Monsignor Delany's death. "These windows", he writes "could not be duplicated today for less than
$35-40, 000.." Zettler had designed the windows in the Medieval style and done the artistic work
according to the subjects and program worked out by Msgr. Delany.
The addition of the baldacchino to the sanctuary was not included in Monsignor Delany's original
plans. As one of the assistants tells the story:
"Originally the floor of the sanctuary was built to support a wooden altar, but the pastor made a change
and imported a marble altar and a baldacchino which weighed 27 tons. When it was installed both the
builder and the architect declared that it would not hold the weight. Holes were then knocked in the
lower walls, and a trestle of steel beams inserted. The operation took a week, and we priests were saying
Mass in the lower church at an altar directly under the menacing weight".
Fortunately, the floor was built sturdily enough to last out that week without mishap.
The people of Incarnation were to show their appreciation of their new church and their gratitude to
God for it by making full use of the opportunity to worship in these new and splendid surroundings.
On that first Sunday, there were five afternoon weddings in the upper church.
The first funeral had already been conducted in the lower church.
For more about our church go to the About Us page.
The John H. McMahon Company, whose works in New York include St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in
the Bronx, did the contracting and building of Incarnation. While the James H. Keane Company
designed and installed the altars. Mollar Organ Works of Hagerstown, MD supplied the organ.
The stained glass windows were executed by Zettler Studios of Newark. An interesting note concerning
these windows is found in a letter of Mr. Zettler to one of the priests of the parish, written some time
after Monsignor Delany's death. "These windows", he writes "could not be duplicated today for less than
$35-40, 000.." Zettler had designed the windows in the Medieval style and done the artistic work
according to the subjects and program worked out by Msgr. Delany.
The addition of the baldacchino to the sanctuary was not included in Monsignor Delany's original
plans. As one of the assistants tells the story:
"Originally the floor of the sanctuary was built to support a wooden altar, but the pastor made a change
and imported a marble altar and a baldacchino which weighed 27 tons. When it was installed both the
builder and the architect declared that it would not hold the weight. Holes were then knocked in the
lower walls, and a trestle of steel beams inserted. The operation took a week, and we priests were saying
Mass in the lower church at an altar directly under the menacing weight".
Fortunately, the floor was built sturdily enough to last out that week without mishap.
The people of Incarnation were to show their appreciation of their new church and their gratitude to
God for it by making full use of the opportunity to worship in these new and splendid surroundings.
On that first Sunday, there were five afternoon weddings in the upper church.
The first funeral had already been conducted in the lower church.
For more about our church go to the About Us page.
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Celebrating 100 years of Prayer and Service 1908-2008
| The Church of the Incarnation A Roman Catholic Church | New York City |
Church of the Incarnation 1290 St. Nicholas Avenue New York, New York 10033 212-927-7474 |
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