The Church of the Good Shepherd, located at 4967

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at the corner of Isham Street in the Inwood neighborhood of

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. It was built in 1935-36 and was designed by Paul Monaghan in the

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. The Celtic cross at the top of the church is an indication that the parish was originally largely

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; today there are more

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History

The parish was established in 1911 on land purchased by the

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from the Isham Estate."History of Inwood's Ishham Park"
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''The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X''. ''Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York''
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. At the time of its founding, Inwood was considered to be "the unofficial capital of the Irish diaspora", and the parish was largely made up of Irish-Americans. The parish's first church was built c.1912, to designs by Thomas H. Poole & Company, on a site just down Isham Street from the current church, surrounded by wooded countryside. A two-story parochial school at 110-116 Cooper Street was built in 1924, to designs by Auguste L. Noel, at the cost of $250,000. A five-story brick convent was located at 620 Isham Street; it was built in 1950 and was designed by architect Paul C. Reilly. It cost $300,000 to construct. Despite the change of the parish's ethnic make-up to be largely

s, there are still ties to the church and New York's Irish community. The church was deeply affected by the loss of many Irish-Americans in the

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. As a memorial, a twisted cruciform piece of steel from the World Trade Center stands in the churchyard, with a sign saying "Ground Hero".

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