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'{{Infobox Historic building |image=Nicholas of Tolentine RCC FR Univ jeh.jpg |caption=Photographed in 2010 |name=The Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine |location_town=[[Bronx]], [[New York City]] |location_country=[[United States]] |architect=[[Delaney, O'Connor & Schultz]] (for 1927 church)<ref name=organ>[http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Brx/html/StNicholasTolentine.html New York City Organs Website: St. Nicholas Church] (Accessed 10 February 2011)</ref> |client=[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]] |engineer= |construction_start_date=1906 (for parochial school-over-church and rectory)<ref name=Lafort>Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KL4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA389 The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.]''. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.389.</ref> |completion_date=1907 (for parochial school-over-church and rectory);<ref name=Lafort/><br> 1927 (for present church)<ref name=organ/> |date_demolished= |cost= |structural_system= |style=[[Collegiate Gothic architecture|Collegiate Gothic]] [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] }} The '''Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine''' is a [[Roman Catholic]] [[List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York#Churches in The Bronx|parish church]] under the authority of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]], located at Fordham Road at University Avenue, in the [[Bronx]] [[Borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[New York City]], in the [[U.S. state]] of [[New York (state)|New York]]. The substantial stone twin-towered is deemed "The Cathedral of the Bronx."<ref name=fire>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/05/2010-03-05_suspicious_blaze_breaks_out_at_bronx_church_st_nicholas_of_tolentine_.html|title=Suspicious blaze breaks out at Bronx church St. Nicholas of Tolentine|last=Jaccarino|first=Mike|author2=Jonathan Lemire |date=March 5, 2010|work=New York Daily News|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref> ==History== The parish was founded by the [[Order of St. Augustine|Augustinian friars]] on 22 April 1906, with the first [[mass (liturgy)|Mass]] occurring in a small garage on North Street near [[Jerome Avenue]].<ref name=Lafort/> Immediately from 1906 on, construction of a permanent church with parochial buildings on Andrews Avenue and Fordham Road commenced.<ref name=Lafort/> The complex would consist of a two-story "combination building," a parochial school-over-church building, along with a separate rectory. Monsignor J. F. Mooney, V.G. laid the cornerstone on 15 July 1906.<ref name=Lafort/> the church was dedicated by Archbishop (later Cardinal) Farley on 15 September 1907.<ref name=Lafort/> In 1914, the property was valued at $135,000.<ref name=Lafort/> By 1914, the University Avenue and Fordham Road property that the present church stands on was purchased and being prepared.<ref name=Lafort/> The present [[Collegiate Gothic architecture|Collegiate]] [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] church structure was built 1927 to the designs of [[Delaney, O'Connor & Schultz]].<ref name=organ/> The building has been incorrectly dated by other sources to the 1950s<ref name=fire/> and early 1900s.<ref name=NY1>{{cite news|url=http://bronx.ny1.com/content/top_stories/114803/despite-fire--bronx-church-holds-service|title=Despite Fire, Bronx Church Holds Service|date=7 March 2010|work=New York One News (NY1 News)|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref> On March 5, 2010, a suspicious two-alarm blaze filled the sanctuary with flames and smoke. "The fire started in a former confessional-turned-storage room in the vestibule of the church, blocking the main entrance."<ref name=fire/> The Rev. Joseph Girone evacuated worshipers through the rectory after principal exits were blocked.<ref name=fire/> Some firemen were injured from a falling plaster ceiling.<ref name=fire/> FDNY Deputy Chief Kevin Scanlon called the fire "suspicious" that "accelerated rapidly [and] it was a heavy fire that didn't have the normal flow of a fire."<ref name=fire/> A string of arson attacks against Bronx churches had recently claimed the Glory of Christ Church in December 2009 in [[Parkchester, Bronx|Parkchester]].<ref name=fire/> Despite the fire, church services were resumed at the parish school's gym, adjacent to the church.<ref name=NY1/> The parish is still staffed by the Augustinian friars. hello ==St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary School== The parochial school, which opened in 1907, was run by the [[Augustinian Fathers]] and the [[Sisters of Charity]].<ref name=Lafort/> In 1914, the school was run by 2 Sisters of Charity and 1 lay teacher. The school had 45 male and 45 female pupils.<ref name=Lafort/> The original school was over the church, and took over the whole building when the present church building was completed in 1927.<ref name=Lafort/> The school has around 376 students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatschools.org/new-york/bronx/4344-St.-Nicholas-Of-Tolentine-Elementary-School/|title=St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary School|publisher=New York City Great Schools|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref> The school closed June 2019. <ref>http://www.cny.org/stories/seven-catholic-elementary-schools-to-close-in-june,18648?</ref> ==Former St. Nicholas of Tolentine High School== There was a [[St. Nicholas of Tolentine High School]], which the parish operated from 1927 to 1991.<ref name=Closing>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/17/nyregion/archdiocese-will-close-a-bronx-high-school.html?pagewanted=1 |title=Archdiocese Will Close a Bronx High School|last=Nieves|first=Evelyn|date=May 17, 1991|accessdate=March 14, 2013}}</ref> It was famous for its [[high school basketball]] team.<ref name=Closing /> The teaching faculty were a mix of layperson educators, Augustinian priests, and Dominican nuns. == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * {{Official website|http://www.stnicholasoftolentinebronx.org/}} {{Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York|state=collapsed}} {{coord|40|51|44.89|N|73|54|21.43|W|region:US|display=title}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Nicholas of Tolentine's Church, Bronx, New York}} [[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in New York City]] [[Category:Religious organizations established in 1906]] [[Category:Churches completed in 1907]] [[Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1927]] [[Category:Roman Catholic churches in the Bronx]] [[Category:Augustinian churches]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1907]] [[Category:Private middle schools in the Bronx]] [[Category:1906 establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:University Heights, Bronx]] [[Category:Catholic elementary schools in the Bronx]]'