Saint Mary of the Seven Sorrows was one of the first Catholic churches erected in Tennessee and remains the oldest extant church structure in Downtown Nashville, dating to 1844. German immigrant and architect Adolphus Heiman (1809-1862) designed the building in the Greek Revival temple style, featuring fluted Ionic columns and a Classical pediment. Nashville's first Roman Catholic Bishop, Richard Pius Miles, O.P. (1791-1860), is primarily responsible for the construction of the structure. Serving as a hospital during the Civil War, the church was not renovated until 1926 when the architecture firm Asmus & Clark updated both the interior and exterior of the church.
St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows
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Saint Mary of the Seven Sorrows was one of the first Catholic churches erected in Tennessee and remains the oldest extant church structure in Downtown Nashville, dating to 1844. German immigrant and architect Adolphus Heiman (1809-1862) designed the building in the Greek Revival temple style, featuring fluted Ionic columns and a Classical pediment. Nashville's first Roman Catholic Bishop, Richard Pius Miles, O.P. (1791-1860), is primarily responsible for the construction of the structure. Serving as a hospital during the Civil War, the church was not renovated until 1926 when the architecture firm Asmus & Clark updated both the interior and exterior of the church.