History

Sacred Heart Parish was founded in 1872, a spin-off as it were from SS Peter and Paul’s Parish of Larimer Avenue. Both the first temporary church building, and the first permanent church, school, and rectory buildings were located on Center Avenue, near Euclid, adjacent to the Northern section of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

The construction of the present magnificent church was begun on March 7, 1924, with the first usage of the facilities, the "Nave" or body of the church commencing in 1926 with a covered nave with two temporary side walls on the Emerson and Shady sides. Parishioners were able to be seated, and services held, and the people became an intimate part of the building of the church. Construction was to continue, in one form or another for the next thirty years until the Marian Year of 1954 when the Blessed Virgin Chapel was constructed, and the Bell Tower completed. At about that same time, the rectory, parish offices and high school building were completed; and the Clerestory Windows, Statues in the Church Proper, and Narthex Organ were installed.