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The Sacred Heart Church
Muenster, Texas

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The church

On New Year's Day 1890, plans were made for a school and church - with the school being built first and serving both purposes. The church was begun the following year but a winter storm destroyed the building before it could be used. The replacement was a Gothic frame church completed by the spring of 1892, but this too was destroyed (in the Summer of 1893) by a tornado. The third church structure began in 1897 and lasted until the early 1950s when it was replaced by the current church building.

Sacred Heart Church sanctuary, Muenster, Texas

The Sanctuary

Sacred Heart Church altar, Muenster, Texas

The Altar

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The Sacred Heart Church Muenster, Texas

The Sacred Heart Church
Muenster, Texas