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I feel so bad for people who live in primarily protestant countries. You get christian bigotry and on top of all that it's not even aesthetic.

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Some Photos of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Manado City, Indonesia

Some front photos of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, a parish under the Diocese of Manado. It's located in North Karombasan Sub-district, Wanea District, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. I took these photos while walking past the front of this church.

This church was inaugurated on 15 October, 1967, as a parish itself. Previously, this church was under the St. Joseph Catholic Church, a parish located quite far from here. Nothing much to say about this church but here are the photos.

Taken on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 16:44 with Samsung Galaxy A05s.

Arundel Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Arundel West Sussex, England. These photos were taken from Arundel Castle gardens. It is a newer cathedral built in 1868 in a Gothic Revival style

New Streamlined Church and a Street Renamed

In 1938, Minneapolis’s northside welcomed a new streamlined church, St. Austin’s Catholic Church, at the northeast corner of Washburn Ave. N and 38th Ave. N. Designed by Minneapolis architects Bard and Vanderbilt, but heavily influenced by the church’s pastor, Rev. James Troy, and his worldly travels (to Brno, Czechoslovakia in particular), the church was an unusually modern, white stucco building with steep arches and curved corners. It was unlike any other building in the city and unlike anything Bard and Vanderbilt would design again.

The Church of St. Austin was a newly-organized Catholic church, made up of about 1500 people who formerly attended St. Bridget’s, St. Ann’s, Ascension, St. Phillips, Holy Cross, St. Joseph’s, and Sacred Heart churches. The new church was named in honor of the late Archbishop Austin Dowling, who was the second archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul (succeeding John Ireland) from 1919 until his death in 1930.

It was the church that led to the renaming of 38th Ave. N to Dowling Ave. N, which was officially changed by the city council on November 12, 1937. (Note, Dowling Ave. was not named after the other famous Minnesota Dowling, Michael J. Dowling, the Minnesota politician, newspaper publisher, businessman, and spokesman for the physically handicapped, who as a boy lost three of his limbs to frostbite, and for whom Dowling Elementary School in South Minneapolis is named.)

Unfortunately, the streamlined St. Austin parish didn’t survive for long, cheaply built with stucco and wood trusses, rather than poured concrete, it wasn’t built to last. The church and parsonage were demolished in 1963, just 25 years after it was built, and five basic single-story homes were built in its place from 1964 to 1965 (pictured in Google streetview above).

St. Austin parish moved to a new brick building nearby, at the corner of Upton Ave. N and 41st Ave. N and eventually merged with St. Bridget parish. Their second building is now home to the New Oil Christian Center.

Photos, 1940 map, and building permit index card from the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. See more photos of St. Austin Catholic Church.