The Immaculate Conception Church and School are located at 2708 South 24th Street in the

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area of

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, United States. The 1926 church and its former school building, built in 1912,Esser, Sarah. Retrieved 2012-03-28. were added to the

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in 1998. Both buildings were designed by Omaha architect

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Church history

Immaculate Conception Parish is part of the

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. The parish was founded in 1898 and incorporated in 1900. Traditionally the home congregation for many

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Catholics in Omaha, the present church was built in 1926 and dedicated on July 31, 1927. In August, 2007, Archbishop Elden Curtiss entrusted the care of the parish to the

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to provide the Mass and sacraments in the traditional rites of the Catholic Church to any who so desired them. The first

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in over 40 years was offered on Sunday, August 26, 2007. A

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dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass as encouraged by

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in his 2007

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'' on the Latin Mass.

Other buildings on the property

The Immaculate Conception School was located next door at 2716 South 24th Street in South

. The school was sold by the church to private property management firm Guardian Real Estate in the mid-1990s and is now a low-income apartment building. The parish still owns the I.C.C. Recreation Center, built in 1954 and located west of the Church. The center houses a wood-floor gymnasium with stage and kitchen (serving as the parish hall), a rentable party room and the I.C.C. Bowlatorium, one of the last church-owned and operated

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left in the U.S. The Bowlatorium is open for party rentals.

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Church history

Other buildings on the property

See also

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