Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Salisbury, North Carolina)
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church on Lumen Christi Lane in Salisbury, North Carolina
, United States
. The building cost $9.4 million, has 12083 square feet (1,122.5 m²) and measures 60 by 170 feet (51.8 m), seating 760, on 107 acre (0.43301402 km²) of land. The church held a dedication
mass
on December 19, 2009. Sacred Heart has about 1000 registered families.
Northrup of Charleston, South Carolina
, went up on land at North Fulton and Council Streets donated by Frances Christine Fisher, author Christian Reid
. The church was part of Belmont Abbey
from 1885 to 1941 and served by the Benedictine order
. In 1910, the Sisters of Mercy
from Belmont, North Carolina
built a school which became a parish school in 1942 and was replaced in August 2009 by a new building on Lumen Christi Lane, served by the Dominican Sisters
of St. Catherine of Sienna. Sacred Heart School serves children through the eighth grade
.
A pink granite
building was dedicated by Bishop Eugene McGuinness
of Raleigh
in 1940. From 1941 until the Charlotte diocese
was formed in 1972, Sacred Heart was under the Raleigh Diocese
.
Our Lady of Victories began in 1942 as an African-American congregation, which later merged with Sacred Heart.
A Hispanic
ministry started in 1995, and Spanish language
masses began once the numbers grew sufficiently to offer them.
Sacred Heart needed a larger building and considered a site on Old Mocksville
Road, but the church traded parcels of land and decided to locate near Isenberg school. Gray Stout of Stout Studio Architecture had toured American and European
churches and looked at books and church rules to determine the proper design for a church. The new building dedicated December 19, 2009 has the shape of a cross
. J.F. Schultze Construction built the new building. James McCreary of Washington, D.C.
designed the column
s, arch
es and interior trim in the sanctuary
/altar
area. Members face east during Mass. Nine of the stained glass
windows came from the old church, and the marble
high altar and side altars, 75 years old, came from Our Lady Help of Christians in Chicago
, while pew
s and Stations of the Cross
came from Queen of Peace in Buffalo, New York
. Confessional
s came from St. Stanislaus Kostka in Baltimore
. Rock faces and tumbled handmade bricks were made by members and were donated by Taylor Clay, also a member.
Most Reverend Peter J. Jurgis, JCD, Bishop of Charlotte
, dedicated the building on December 19, 2009.
Salisbury, North Carolina
Salisbury is a city in Rowan County in North Carolina, a state of the United States of America. The population was 33,663 in the 2010 Census . It is the county seat of Rowan County...
, United States
United States
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. The building cost $9.4 million, has 12083 square feet (1,122.5 m²) and measures 60 by 170 feet (51.8 m), seating 760, on 107 acre (0.43301402 km²) of land. The church held a dedication
Dedication
Dedication is the act of consecrating an altar, temple, church or other sacred building. It also refers to the inscription of books or other artifacts when these are specifically addressed or presented to a particular person. This practice, which once was used to gain the patronage and support of...
mass
Mass (liturgy)
"Mass" is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church: others are "Eucharist", the "Lord's Supper", the "Breaking of Bread", the "Eucharistic assembly ", the "memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection", the "Holy Sacrifice", the "Holy and...
on December 19, 2009. Sacred Heart has about 1000 registered families.
History
The Roueche family came to Salisbury in 1838 and were believed to be the first Catholics in the area. The wooden first building, dedicated in 1882, by BishopBishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
Northrup of Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
, went up on land at North Fulton and Council Streets donated by Frances Christine Fisher, author Christian Reid
Land of the Sky
The Land of the Sky, or, adventures in mountain by-ways is a novel by Mrs. Frances Tiernan, under the pseudonym Christian Reid. It was published in 1876.The name refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains in western North Carolina...
. The church was part of Belmont Abbey
Belmont Abbey, North Carolina
Mary Help of Christians Abbey, better known as Belmont Abbey, is a small community of Benedictine monks in the town of Belmont, North Carolina, outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. Founded by Bishop Leo Haid in 1876, it is the daughter abbey to St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe,...
from 1885 to 1941 and served by the Benedictine order
Order of Saint Benedict
The Order of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests...
. In 1910, the 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....
from Belmont, North Carolina
Belmont, North Carolina
Belmont is a small suburban city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, located about west of uptown Charlotte, North Carolina and east of Gastonia. The population was 8,705 at the 2000 census. Once known as Garibaldi, the city named in honor of August Belmont, a prominent New York banker...
built a school which became a parish school in 1942 and was replaced in August 2009 by a new building on Lumen Christi Lane, served by the Dominican Sisters
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...
of St. Catherine of Sienna. Sacred Heart School serves children through the eighth grade
Eighth grade
Eighth grade is a year of education in the United States, Canada, Australia and other nations. Students are usually 13 - 14 years old. The eighth grade is typically the final grade before high school, and the ninth grade of public and private education, following kindergarten and subsequent grades...
.
A pink granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
building was dedicated by Bishop Eugene McGuinness
Eugene J. McGuinness
Eugene Joseph McGuinness was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Raleigh and Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa .-Biography:...
of Raleigh
Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
The Diocese of Raleigh is a Roman Catholic diocese that covers the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The bishop is seated at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina.- Establishment :...
in 1940. From 1941 until the Charlotte diocese
Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, formally in Latin Dioecesis Carolinana, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising the counties of western North Carolina divided into ten vicariates named for and administered from Albemarle, Asheville, Boone,...
was formed in 1972, Sacred Heart was under the Raleigh Diocese
Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
The Diocese of Raleigh is a Roman Catholic diocese that covers the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The bishop is seated at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina.- Establishment :...
.
Our Lady of Victories began in 1942 as an African-American congregation, which later merged with Sacred Heart.
A Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
ministry started in 1995, and Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
masses began once the numbers grew sufficiently to offer them.
Sacred Heart needed a larger building and considered a site on Old Mocksville
Mocksville, North Carolina
Mocksville is a town in Davie County, North Carolina, USA. The population was 4,178 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Davie County.-Geography:Mocksville is located at ....
Road, but the church traded parcels of land and decided to locate near Isenberg school. Gray Stout of Stout Studio Architecture had toured American and European
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
churches and looked at books and church rules to determine the proper design for a church. The new building dedicated December 19, 2009 has the shape of a cross
Christian cross
The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the instrument of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, is the best-known religious symbol of Christianity...
. J.F. Schultze Construction built the new building. James McCreary of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
designed the column
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...
s, arch
Arch
An arch is a structure that spans a space and supports a load. Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture and their systematic use started with the Ancient Romans who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures.-Technical aspects:The...
es and interior trim in the sanctuary
Sanctuary
A sanctuary is any place of safety. They may be categorized into human and non-human .- Religious sanctuary :A religious sanctuary can be a sacred place , or a consecrated area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.- Sanctuary as a sacred place :#Sanctuary as a sacred place:#:In...
/altar
Altar
An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes. Altars are usually found at shrines, and they can be located in temples, churches and other places of worship...
area. Members face east during Mass. Nine of the stained glass
Stained glass
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
windows came from the old church, and the marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
high altar and side altars, 75 years old, came from Our Lady Help of Christians in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, while pew
Pew
A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, or sometimes in a courtroom.-Overview:Churches were not commonly furnished with permanent pews before the Protestant Reformation...
s and Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. The tradition as chapel devotion began with St...
came from Queen of Peace in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
. Confessional
Confessional
A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. It is the usual venue for the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church, but similar structures are also used in Anglican churches of an Anglo-Catholic orientation, and also in the...
s came from St. Stanislaus Kostka in Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
. Rock faces and tumbled handmade bricks were made by members and were donated by Taylor Clay, also a member.
Most Reverend Peter J. Jurgis, JCD, Bishop of Charlotte
Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, formally in Latin Dioecesis Carolinana, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising the counties of western North Carolina divided into ten vicariates named for and administered from Albemarle, Asheville, Boone,...
, dedicated the building on December 19, 2009.