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St. Mary and St. Moses church, formerly Taftville Congregational Church, was damaged in a fire Saturday. Repairs will take over a year to make.
Named after the founder of the large textile mill in 1866, Taftville is north of Greeneville and west of the Shetucket River. Since the 19th century, Taftville has been the center of Norwich's French-Canadian population. Sacred Heart Church, located on the village's main street (Providence Street), for years celebrated the Catholic Mass in French.
In the 17th and much of the 18th century, Puritan ministers in the British Province of Connecticut were vociferously anti-Catholic in their writings and preaching. They viewed the Catholic Church as a foreign political power and of Catholics as having loyalty only to the Vatican.
Taftville is a small village in eastern Connecticut, United States. It is a neighborhood of Norwich but has its own post office ( ZIP Code 06380). It was established in 1866 as site for the large Taftville Mill, later Ponemah Mill.
Sacred Heart Parish (Polish: Parafia Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w New Britain) is a Catholic parish designated for Polish immigrants in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded on August 10, 1894. It is one of the oldest Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford .
In 1833, Father James Fitton celebrated the first Catholic mass in Norwich in a third floor loft with 12 people in attendance. By 1842, the first building in town to serve as a church was a shed in Twomeytown.
With 300 Polish families resident in the city, Middletown’s Poles had determined to build a church of their own in 1902. A small group planned the organization of the St. Mary of Czestochowa parish, which gained formal approval from the bishop.
The Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent make up a historic Roman Catholic church complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church was built in the 1870s and 1880s to serve the parish first organized as the St. John the Evangelist Parish in 1842. The cornerstone of the church was laid on 4 October 1874.