Saint Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church
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Immigration to Jersey City, New Jersey from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire began in the late 1870�s. During 1887, Ukrainian and Ruthenian Greek Catholics began Saints Peter and Paul Greek Catholic Church. One of the founders of this church was a Lemko, Pavlo Filak, from Luhy, Gorlice District, present day Poland. By early 1915, language dialect and cultural differences led 24 Ruthenian families in the Lafayette section of Jersey City to form their own church. By the end of that year their number had grown to 65 families. On March 7, 1917 the parish was formally incorporated and the name changed to St. Mary�s Greek Catholic Church.
This church church was built in 1929
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Saint Mary Byzantine Church, Ruthenian Catholic, Church, Lafayette Section, Jersey City, Hudson County, Gateway, The Gateway Region, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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