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This part of Jersey City is a neighborhood from a bygone America. This is not so much because of the (undistinguished) architecture. It is because the homes and apartments are close together, the population of the neighborhood is relatively stable, and people in the neighborhood know each other (though sometimes only by sight). The population is predominantly but not entirely Italian-American.
Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church
344 Sixth Street
From the church's web site:
"During the first few years of the early 1880’s the Italian speaking population of Jersey City began to increase rapidly, but they had no church of their own. In the towns, villages and cities of Italy the local church had been to these people a spiritual and social force. By the end of 1884 Bishop Wigger directed Father De Concilio to organize the Italians of Jersey City into a parish and to build a church. Father James S. Hanly, the pastor of St. Bridget’s was assigned to guide the new parish through its embryonic years.
With the money contributed by the congregation, two lots, 340 and 342 Sixth Street, between Monmouth and Brunswick Streets, were purchased for about two thousand dollars. A small frame structure already on the site was used as a temporary chapel. The first Mass celebrated was in February 1885."
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