Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church began in 1909 in a house in Fair Haven. There had been a Ukrainian community in New Haven for approximately twenty years when the property at 125 Park Street was purchased in 1911 as the site for its first church. The church building had been home to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, a congregation of predominantly African-Americans, from 1852 to 1905, and then to a Swedish Methodist Church. Named for St. Michael the Archangel, the “Little Grey Church on Park Street” was home to the congregation and the hub of the Ukrainian community until 1958.

Text source courtesy St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church of New Haven 75th Jubilee Book, 1984.

On the Downtown Tour

1 | New Haven Green

2 | Amistad Memorial

3 | Knights of Columbus First Office

4 | Young Men’s Hebrew Association

5 | First St. Patrick’s Day Parade

6 | Shartenberg’s Department Store

7 | Horowitz Brothers

7 | Mendel and Freedman

8 | Downes News Company

9 | J. Johnson & Sons

10 | Poli’s Bijou Theater

10 | Poli’s Palace Theater

11 | First St. Mary’s R.C. Church

12 | Edw. Malley Co. and Gamble-Desmond’s

13 | Temple Street Congregational Church/B’nai Jacob Synagogue

14 | First Knights of Columbus Headquarters

15 | Shubert Theater

16 | Townsend Block

17 | WNHC TV

18 | Jewish Community Center

19 | St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church

20 | St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church/Ukrainian National Home