Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church

Nativity of St John the Baptist parish was founded in 1895 by Rusyn/Slavic farmers who immigrated to the United States from both the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathian Mountain region in Eastern Europe.  Most of the immigrants came from areas around Presov in what is now Slovakia, then the Kingdom of Hungary, or the Lemkian region of Galicia, now in southern Poland.After completing the church building on the Laura St property, it was consecrated by His Eminence, Nicholas, Bishop of t...