Immaculate Conception Church is a historic

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church building at 1314 Lynn Avenue in

Pawhuska, Oklahoma Pawhuska ( Osage: 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘, ''hpahúska'', lit.: ''White Hair''; Chiwere: ''Paháhga'') is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,98 ...

. It was built in 1910 and added to the National Register in 1979. It is a red brick

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church building which is significant mostly for its unusual stained glass windows designed by the Bavarian Art Glass Company of Munich, given dispensation to be placed in the church by special permission of the pope. With One of the two largest shows Columbus arriving in the New World and being met by Indians. The other shows the arrival of Father Shoemaker to meet the Osage tribe in Kansas, before the tribe was moved to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The church and its stained glass windows were planned by Father Edward Van Waesberghe, who also directly helped in its construction. The " Bavarian Art Glass Co. of Munich" mentioned may be what is otherwise known as the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Manufactory, in

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, or the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Manufactory, Munich or the Franz Mayer & Co.

References

Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Roman Catholic churches completed in 1910 National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Oklahoma 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{Oklahoma-RC-church-stub