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The Immigrant Story
How successive waves of migrants built their faith communities — and their churches — in Massachusetts.
- 01The Irish Parish and Boston's Built Landscape
Famine arrivals who became the city's most prolific church builders.
- 02Italian Parishes: The North End and Beyond
Festa culture, devotional art, and the church as village piazza.
- 03Portuguese Catholicism and South Coast Architecture
Azorean and Cape Verdean traditions visible in New Bedford and Fall River.
- 04French-Canadian Parishes and the Mill-Town Church
How Québécois migrants stamped their faith on Lowell, Holyoke, and Fall River.
- 05Polish National Parishes: Chicopee to Worcester
Monumental ambition on immigrant budgets in central and western Massachusetts.