Quite a change from the abandoned pics we saw a while back, no? Not the best picture in the world in terms of quality, but it's better than having nothing. It could just be the photo, but it already looks like the church was starting to suffer some water damage---look to the right of the sanctuary.
That church was huge.
ReplyDeleteOr at least it looked that way - shame that neighborhood went so far downhill. It was starting to go back around the early 1960s.
Oops - it was beginning to go BAD around the early 1960s.
ReplyDeleteI've been told it was beautiful at one time.
http://www.straymonds.org/dedication.booklet.pdf
ReplyDeleteDo a search for "Transfiguration" and it will take you right down to the part of the statues coming from TOLC.
Oh? And Saint Raymond has TOL's MAIN altar.
ReplyDeleteGood for St. Raymond. Bad for Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteAfter this church was closed it was involved in a financial scandal. It was bought from the archdiocese by Raffaello Follieri (one time boyfriend of Anne Hathaway) who ostensibly was going to redevelop it, but who was actually taking money that investors were putting into his venture.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Transfiguration School is no longer empty.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=document&documentID=2738§ionID=34
The above photo was from my parents wedding. I looked at the photo that he scanned. It wasn't the greatest, but he said that they were already having water damage then.
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