By EMMALEE ITALIA
Contributing Editor
St. Dominic Church, Brick, was recently featured in an online article of Liturgical Arts Journal for its dramatic interior renovation in the publication’s “Before and After” series.
To read the article, visit https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2023/08/before-and-after-church-of-st-dominic.html
The article draws attention to the St. Dominic worship space’s transformation not only in color and materials, but also adding architectural features like a Gothic-style sanctuary, statues, hand-crafted marble altars and an altar rail. The newly installed elements were pieces derived from Holy Spirit Church, Asbury Park, which closed in 2021 due to financial challenges after many efforts to save the parish were unsuccessful.
Parishioners of St. Dominic Parish install the altar linens on the newly consecrated altar.
“With the assistance of many faithful supporters and parishioners, we have put forth efforts to assure that the marble from the interior of the Holy Spirit sanctuary is preserved,” St. Dominic Parish details on its website. “Such structures and features so rich in beauty and history, nor an altar, should be disregarded or demolished. Each portion of the marble altar has been deconstructed – piece by piece – and preserved so that its beauty and history can live on and bring further glory to Almighty God.”
The Liturgical Arts Journal series highlights churches around the United States that have undergone projects that restore preexisting or add new details, including painted frescoes and new structures. Other featured churches include St. Bernadette Church, Scottsdale, Ariz.; St. Stephen Church, Grand Rapids, Mich. St. Patrick Cathedral, Norwich, Conn.; St. Helen Church, Vero Beach, Fla., and many others.
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