Our Lady of Good Voyage Church
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Our Lady of Good Voyage Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 136-144 Prospect Street and 2-4 Taylor Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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The church was built in 1914 and added to the National Historic Register in 1990.
The parish was founded in 1889. The original building burned down. The current structure was built 1914 and modeled after the Santa Maria Madelena church in Madelena, Pico, Azores.
The church also includes one of the oldest sets of full carillon
bells in the United States.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census...
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The church was built in 1914 and added to the National Historic Register in 1990.
The parish was founded in 1889. The original building burned down. The current structure was built 1914 and modeled after the Santa Maria Madelena church in Madelena, Pico, Azores.
The church also includes one of the oldest sets of full carillon
Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...
bells in the United States.