Immaculate Conception Church and School
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The Immaculate Conception Church and School are located at 2708 South 24th Street in the South Omaha area of Omaha
Omaha
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, Nebraska
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. Built in 1898, the church and its former school building were added together to the National Register of Historic Places
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 in 1998.

Church history

Immaculate Conception Parish is a parish of the Archdiocese of Omaha. Immaculate Conception Parish was founded in 1898 and incorporated in 1900. Traditionally the home congregation for many Polish Catholics in Omaha, the present church was built in 1926 and dedicated on July 31, 1927. In August, 2007, Archbishop Elden Curtiss entrusted the care of the parish to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter is a traditionalist Catholic Society of Apostolic Life of priests and seminarians in good standing with the Holy See.-Canonical status:...

 to provide the Mass and Sacraments in the Traditional Rites of the Catholic Church to any who so desire them. The first Traditional Latin Mass
Tridentine Mass
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 in over 40 years was offered on Sunday, August 26, 2007. A personal parish dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass is encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
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 in his 2007 Motu Proprio
Motu proprio
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 Summorum Pontificum
Summorum Pontificum
Summorum Pontificum is an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued "motu proprio" . The document specified the rules, for the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, for celebrating Mass according to the "Missal promulgated by John XXIII in 1962" , and for administering most of the sacraments in...

on the Latin Mass.

Other buildings on the property

Immaculate Conception School is located next door at 2716 South 24th Street in south Omaha
Omaha
Omaha may refer to:*Omaha , a Native American tribe that currently resides in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska-Places:United States* Omaha, Nebraska* Omaha, Arkansas* Omaha, Georgia* Omaha, Illinois* Omaha, Texas...

, Nebraska
Nebraska
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. The school was sold by the church to private property management firm Guardian Real Estate in the mid-1990s and is now a low-income apartment building.

Still owned by the parish is the I.C.C. Recreation Center, built in 1954 and located west of the Church. The center houses a wood-floor gymnasium with stage and kitchen (serving as the parish hall), a rentable party room and the I.C.C. Bowlatorium, one of the last church-owned and operated bowling alleys
Ten-pin bowling
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left in the U.S. The Bowlatorium is open for leagues, open bowling and party rentals.

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