Church of the Holy Family (Columbus, Georgia)
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The Church of the Holy Family is a Catholic Church located in Downtown
Downtown Columbus, Georgia
Downtown Columbus, Georgia, also called "Uptown" , is the central business district of the city of Columbus, Georgia. The commercial and governmental heart of the city has traditionally been toward the eastern end of Downtown Columbus, between 10th Street and 1st Avenue...

 Columbus
Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, with which it is consolidated. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 189,885. It is the principal city of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, which, in 2009, had an estimated population of 292,795...

, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, United States
United States
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. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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 September 29, 1980.

History

The Church of the Holy Family was originally built in 1835 and called St. Philip and James Parish. It was relocated to its current site and dedicated May 12, 1880 and renamed the Church of The Holy Family. The Gothic
Gothic architecture
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 and Byzantine
Byzantine architecture
Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to...

 architecture was designed by Daniel Foley, an Irish-born architect. The Church was built on property given by Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy is an order of Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. , the order has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations....

 who started a school called St. Joseph's Academy. This school went on to become St. Anne‒Pacelli Catholic School.

See also

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