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Our Lady of Refuge Church in Ditmas Park has become world-renowned, thanks to an international capital campaign to restore the Roman Catholic parish’s organ.
The parish was founded in 1911 to serve Irish and German Catholics. The current church building was dedicated 80 years ago, in 1934, around which time the organ, also 80 years old, was built and installed. The parish now has members from at least 30 ethnic groups, with English, Spanish and Creole being the primary languages in which liturgies are offered.