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October 4, 1894
- On October 4, 1894, taking less than a month to construct, a small wooden church was opened on the corner of Norwood and Glass (now Lausche) Avenues.
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Jul 24, 2015 · On October 4, 1894, taking less than a month to construct, a small wooden church was opened on the corner of Norwood and Glass (now Lausche) Avenues. It was named St. Vitus Church after the namesake of its founding priest, and was the first Slovenian Roman Catholic parish in Ohio.
The new St. Vitus Church, a Byzantine-Lombard design with twin bell towers and three choir lofts, was completed in 1932. The church featured an orchestral sounding pipe organ, built by the Holtkamp Organ Co., Cleveland, Ohio. With 1,500 wooden and metal organ pipes, and the materials used in the church, the new church pipe organ could now ...
After a two-year construction, in 1932, the second St. Vitus Church was constructed on East 61st and Glass Avenue. It cost about $350,000 ($8,200,000 in 2023 dollars). The architect was William Jansen of Cleveland. It still stands as the largest Slovenian church in the United States of America.
VITUS CHURCH, at E. 61st St. and Glass Ave., was the first Catholic church in Cleveland for SLOVENES. Later one of the largest Slovenian churches in America, St. Vitus's first service was on 6 Aug. 1893.
The first church was an early Romanesque rotunda founded by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia in 930. This patron saint was chosen because Wenceslaus had acquired a holy relic – the arm of St. Vitus – from Emperor Henry I.
Jan 5, 2020 · The construction of St. Vitus Cathedral was not easy and lasted for 6 centuries: it began in the middle of the 14th century, and was completed only in the middle of the 20th century.
Mar 3, 2023 · The history of the St. Vitus Cathedral dates back to the 10th century when a small church dedicated to St. Vitus was built on the site of the current cathedral. However, it wasn’t until the 14th...
