Immaculata Church is located at the top of Mt. Adams, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Church is located at 30 Guido Street. The Church serves the Roman Catholic Holy Cross–Immaculata Church parish and has a breathtaking view of the Ohio River below from one of the highest points in Cincinnati. The church was built in 1859 just before the American Civil War for the German congregation in the city's Mt. Adams neighborhood.

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  • Immaculata Church is located at the top of Mt. Adams, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Church is located at 30 Guido Street. The Church serves the Roman Catholic Holy Cross–Immaculata Church parish and has a breathtaking view of the Ohio River below from one of the highest points in Cincinnati. The church was built in 1859 just before the American Civil War for the German congregation in the city's Mt. Adams neighborhood. Archbishop John Baptist Purcell decided to build the church while praying during a severe storm at sea. He promised God that if he survived, he would build a church on the city's highest point. The church has served since 1860 as a pilgrimage church, where on Good Friday the faithful ascend eighty-nine steps from the level of the river to the front door of the church. First wooden steps were put up, and then in 1911, the city of Cincinnati helped the church build concrete steps. Each year in February members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians knock on the church door and ask permission to remove the statue of St. Patrick The Priest invokes the intercession of St. Patrick. With bagpipes leading the way the six foot statue of St. Patrick leaves the church and starts his Mini Parade through Mt. Adams. The Holy Cross monastery was closed in 1977, and the parishioners joined with Immaculata to become the Holy Cross-Immaculata parish. The Mt. Adams Preservation Association raised enough funds to have Johann Schmitt's paintings in the Holy Cross - Immaculata Church restored to their original brilliance. He had created seven paintings over the main altar and side altars between the years 1863 and 1870. A painted scroll stretches across the main altar's painting of The Immaculate Conception. In German, it reads: O Maria, ohne Suende empfangen, bitte fuer die Bekehrung dieses Landes, Amerika. (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for the conversion of this country, America. ) In August 2005, workmen started chipping out bricks and glass block in a space that was a rose window. The original had been lost in a storm. The new window came from Saint Bonaventure Church was closed and torn down in 2003. Father Neiheisel and Holy Cross Immaculata pastoral assistant Bill Frantz worked to salvage a colorful stained-glass rose (round) window that had been over the altar. Then Neiheisel started raising the $44,000 needed to have the window reinforced, enlarged with an 18-inch ring of additional glass, and ultimately set into the Holy Cross-Immaculata wall behind a layer of strong, protective glass.
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  • Immaculata Church is located at the top of Mt. Adams, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Church is located at 30 Guido Street. The Church serves the Roman Catholic Holy Cross–Immaculata Church parish and has a breathtaking view of the Ohio River below from one of the highest points in Cincinnati. The church was built in 1859 just before the American Civil War for the German congregation in the city's Mt. Adams neighborhood.
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