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Show NEW YORK'S CHURCHGOERS. Its 600 Churches of All Creeds and Attendance Attend-ance of 900,000 Worshipers. There are 84 Catholic churches in New York city for a Catholic population of 500,000. Of these churches 3 are of the Jesuit order, 2 Capuchin, 2 Franciscan, 1 Carmelite, 1 Paulist and 1 Dominican. There are 10 German Catholic churches, 2 Italian, 1 Bohemian, 1 French, 1 Hungarian, Hun-garian, 1 French Canadian and 1 Polish. The Polish church is in Stanton street and is now the subject of litigation. It is the only Catholic church in the most densely populated ward of New York, which contains 75,000 inhabitants in 110 acres of ground. If, as the church authorities expect, this church is closed for religious UBes, the Tenth ward will be the only one in town of the 24 without a Catholic church. The Twenty-fourth ward has seven. There are 200,000 colored Catholics in the United States, and those of them who reside in New York, a small fraction of the whole number, have a church of their own at the intersection of Bleecker and Downing streets. Since its establishment estab-lishment in 1883, 458 colored children have been baptized there, 104 adults have been confirmed, and 92 marriage ceremonies ceremo-nies have been performed. There are three orders of colored sisters in the United States viz, one in Baltimore, established in 1829; one in New Orleans, established in 1842, and one in Savannah, established in 1883. The total number of churches of all creeds and denominations in New York city is 600. Their seating capacity is 825,000, and their value is $80,000,000. The assessed value of the marble cathedral, cathe-dral, the most important of the Catholic churches in town, is $3,000,000; Trinity church is valued at $4,000,000, Grace church is valued at $350,000, the Jewish Temple Emanu El on Fifth avenue and Forty-third street is valued at $400,000, and the Jewish Temple Beth El on Fifth avenue and Seventy-sixth street is valued val-ued at $400,000. New York is very largely a city of churchgoers. The total attendance taken collectively on Saturday and Sunday at all forms of religious worship amounts to about 900,000 in a total population of 1,800,000, including the sick, the disabled, infants, octogenarians and persons in publio institutions. There are more Methodists than Baptists in New York, more Presbyterians than Methodists and more Catholics than Presbyterians. The oldest Catholic church in New York is St. Peter's on Barclay street. Next oldest old-est is St. Mary's at Grand and Ridge streets. There are 48 Jewish synagogues in New York city. New York Sun. |