St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church

St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, commonly called the Church of St. Martin de Porres is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and is located in Bay Ridge, New York City.

Planning on building
On December 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI agreed with his Apostolic advisors to start planning on building a new parish church based in New York as the point to increase more Catholicism. In order to build a church, the architect family Zyara agreed to start building it by the 2012 year. Following the death of an architect Emile Zyara, his daughter Michelle started to focus on building and after 7 years of building, they finally opened it to the public.

Consecration of the Church
The church was consecrated after a day of the grand opening, on June 24, 2019, by a cardinal from Catania, Italy. Also during the consecration, the present was: Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Aüffenberg, Father Byrne, Father Pasteur and a few of clergy from Italy, Germany, England, Brazil.